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 That Uncle Tom's Cabin is far more than an outdated work of propaganda confounds literary criticism.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
La Cabana del Tio Tom
Paperback
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato il 06 Ottobre 1998 da Porrua.
- ISBN:
- 978-968-432-002-4ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Paperback
Pubblicato il 01 Marzo 1968 da Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-50322-0ISBN copiato!
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Paperback
Pubblicato il 01 Marzo 1968 da Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-50393-0ISBN copiato!
Khizhina di︠a︡di Toma
556, pagine
lingua Russian
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1980 da Detskai︠a︡ literatura.
Khizhina di͡a︡di Toma
256, pagine
lingua Russian
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1887 da Tip. A.A. Kart͡s︡eva.
Caban f'ewythr Tom.
117, pagine
lingua Welsh
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1931
Tom avgyn ovookhoĭ
230, pagine
lingua Mongolian
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1962 da Ulsyn Khėvlėliĭn Khėrėg Ėrkhlėkh Khoroo.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
lingua English
Pubblicato da Easton Press.
দদাইৰ পজা
lingua Assamese
Pubblicato il 1930
De negerhut
Microform
lingua Dutch
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1853 da A.C. Kruseman.
টমকাকার কুটীর
lingua Bangla
Pubblicato il 1913
La capanna di papà Tom =
lingua Italian
Pubblicato il 06 Agosto 1853 da Stab. tip. di G. Nobile.
La case de l'Oncle Tom
lingua French
Pubblicato il 1878 da Charpentier.
A cabana do Pai Thomé
lingua Portuguese
Pubblicato il 1853 da Tipografia Universal.
Een kijkje in de hut van oom Tom
lingua Dutch
Pubblicato il 1953
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