"1600 - 1775" . . . . "Preaching." . . "FICTION / Historical." . . "Northampton (Mass.)" . . "FICTION General." . . "Massachusetts" . . "Massachusetts." . "\"In his famous sermon \"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,\" Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards' wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale\"--"@en . . "\"In his famous sermon \"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,\" Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards' wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale\"--" . . . . "Biographical fiction"@en . "Biographical fiction" . . . . . . "History"@en . "Historical fiction"@en . "Historical fiction" . "History" . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Spider in a Tree : a novel"@en . "Spider in a Tree : a novel" . . . . . . "Spider in a tree : a novel"@en . . "Eighteenth-century preacher Jonathan Edwards made the town of Northampton famous for its piety before the town rejected him."@en . "FICTION / Religious." . . "Preachers Fiction." . . "FICTION / Literary." . . "Preaching Fiction." . .