Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly - Brossura

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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ISBN 10: 0451530802 ISBN 13: 9780451530806

Casa editrice: Signet, 2008

Riassunto

This significant work, which has earned a place in American history and literature, follows a devoutly Christian slave who becomes separated from his wife and family when he is sold to the brutal planter, Simon Legree. Reissue.

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Recensione

“Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.”—Alfred Kazin

L'autore

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836.  The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict, and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the African-American in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet's sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially from 1851 to 1852 in The National Era and as a book in 1852.  More than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold in one year.  Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.

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• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0451530802
• ISBN 13: 9780451530806
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544