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Original Title: The Last Witchfinder
ISBN: 0060821809 (ISBN13: 9780060821807)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Colchester, England(United Kingdom) Salem, Massachusetts(United States) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(United States) …more London, England(United Kingdom) …less
Literary Awards: John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2007), James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2006)
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The Last Witchfinder Paperback | Pages: 526 pages
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Title:The Last Witchfinder
Author:James K. Morrow
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 526 pages
Published:March 13th 2007 by Harper Perennial (first published May 1st 2005)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Witches

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Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures—traveling from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted island in the Caribbean, braving West Indies pirates, Algonquin Indian captors, the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, and the sensuous love of a young Ben Franklin. For Jennet cannot and must not rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business.

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Crap.(Not even crap-tastic)Just crap.Couldn't finish this one.Don't care what happens.Don't care what I missed.Waste of good paper.Waste of my time.

Jennet Stearne is now one of my all-time favourite literary characters. The device of giving Newtons Principia a character and voice, through which the Age of Reason is defined, was a unique stroke which grounded the story in reality. Ms Stearne, rare enough as a devotee of Reason and Science, and rarer still as a female character of the time period to do so, is wonderful. Stubborn, irascible, flawed and highly principled, her fight to rid Britain, and later the US, of the doctrine in law and

I was not expecting this book to be so metatextual; I thought I was getting a straight historical novel but instead got a picaresque about the ongoing battle between rational and magical thinking, narrated by Isaac Newtons Principia Mathematica itself.I enjoyed the way the protagonist, Jennet, seemed always to be in the right place at the right time to witness key events and meet key people in history. There was a rollicking, fabulist quality to the narrative but when I looked up the timelines

This one took what seemed like forever to read (but since it spans the onset of the Enlightenment through to today, that's perhaps to be expected). I dipped in here and there, reading a section--a chapter--an hourglass at a time (if you've read it, that will make sense). The black humour, the delightfully anachronistic voice, the historical characterizations...I found it all utterly charming and compelling and altogether unique.It's tempting to draw comparisons to Vonnegut and Tom Robbins (

The clash between reason and superstition has never been written in such original manner. Intelligent and witty and many times hilarious, it is mix of true historical facts mixed with fiction. Set in Enland and America, with a range of characters as Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and Abigail Williams from the Salem Witch Trials and narrated by a book, it is a thought-provoking book despite its tongue-in-cheek air. The battle between " Principia" and " Malleus..." are quite funny! Recommended.

Looking back at the order of books that I have read thus far, I wonder to myself why I did not choose to pick this book up immediately after I finished reading Jonathan Kirsch's The Grand Inquisitor's Manual, a nonfictional account of the Inquisition. Now that I think about it, though, it was a good idea that I didn't go straight from Kirsch's work to Morrow's. The intellectual current started by The Grand Inquisitor's Manual would likely have prevented me from seeing and appreciating The Last

Jennet Stearnes is a young woman ahead of her time. Although she's the daughter of a witchfinder in England, she is fortunate to have an Aunt Isobel Mowbray who is a "natural philosopher." She tutors Jennet in science, mathematics, and philosophy. She also provides young Jennet with her treatise, "A Woman's Garden of Pleasure and Pain," which will greatly enrich Jennet's life for many years. When Jennet's father unwisely puts a member of English gentry to the torch for witchcraft, Jennet, her