This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of …
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This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped to solidify the anti-slavery sentiments of the North, and it remains today as the book that helped move a nation to civil war.
"So this is the little lady who made this big war." Abraham Lincoln's legendary comment upon meeting Mrs. Stowe has been seriously questioned, but few will deny that this work fed the passions and prejudices of countless numbers. If it did not "make" the Civil Warm, it flamed the embers. That Uncle Tom's Cabin is far more than an outdated work of propaganda confounds literary criticism. The novel's overwhelming power and persuasion have outlived even the most severe of critics. As Professor John William Ward of Amherst College points out in his incisive Afterword, the dilemma posed by Mrs. Stowe is no less relevant today than it was in 1852: What is it to be "a moral human being"? Can such a person live in society -- any society? Commenting on the timeless significance of the book, Professor Ward writes: "Uncle Tom's Cabin is about slavery, but it is about slavery because the fatal weakness of the slave's condition is the extreme manifestation of the sickness of the general society, a society breaking up into discrete, atomistic individuals where human beings, white or black, can find no secure relation one with another. Mrs. Stowe was more radical than even those in the South who hated her could see. Uncle Tom's Cabin suggests no less than the simple and terrible possibility that society has no place in it for love." - Back cover.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 18362
- BNF ID:
- 120080111
Edizioni di Uncle Tom's Cabin
Filtri
Onkel Toms Hütte
Copertina rigida, 221 pagine
lingua German, Deutsch
Pubblicato il 26 Dicembre 2001 da Arena.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-401-04473-6ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 22698668
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, life among the lowly
447, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1995 da Barnes & Noble Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56619-551-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 33329056
Uncle Tom's Cabin
eBook
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 2006 da 1st World Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59540-081-9ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 70144611
Uncle Tom's Cabin
494, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Febbraio 1966 da Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-51473-8ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Febbraio 1966 da Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-52122-4ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly
628, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 2009 da Broadview Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55111-806-2ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly
463, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 2008 da Bedford/St. Martins.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-312-44651-2ISBN copiato!
La cabaña del tio Tom
147, pagine
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1987 da Fernandez.
- ISBN:
- 978-968-416-907-4ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 19964699
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Turtleback, 629 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Giugno 1986 da Demco Media.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-606-01538-7ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's cabin.
442, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1952 da Dodd, Mead.
- Numero OCLC:
- 1387047
Tangmu shu shu de xiao wu =
409, pagine
lingua Chinese
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 2003 da Zhongguo zhi gong chu ban she.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-80179-133-7ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1993 da G.K. Hall.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8161-5714-3ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's cabin
451, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1965 da Harper & Row.
- Numero OCLC:
- 2498013
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Hardcover
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Dicembre 1975 da Georg Olms Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-487-05691-3ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's cabin
529, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1879 da Houghton, Osgood and company.
- Numero OCLC:
- 3796356
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