Name: Uncle Tom's Cabin par Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Résumé

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beecher Stowe's vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America.

When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation owner, fighting for his freedom and ultimately, for his right to live. With a rich narrative and wonderfully realised characters, this is a panoramic, incredibly accomplished work. Originally published to much acclaim in 1852, it quickly established Harriet Beecher Stowe as one of America's most influential female novelists and was crucial in helping to secure the abolition of slavery.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Avis

Its power is that it never makes light of slavery and its attendant vast misery -- John Updike * New Yorker *
A century and a half since its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin retains a fascination for Americans... it stoked a furious hostility among many Americans to the continuation of slavery in their own Southern states * Daily Telegraph *
The novel's impact was global... Among those who hailed it as a masterpiece were Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot -- Gary Younge * Guardian *
Explosive * Economist *

À propos de Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter - she drew on her anger from this to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century after the Bible. It was hugely influential in the abolition debate, and catapulted Stowe into the spotlight. When President Abraham Lincolm met her he is reported to have described her as 'the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War'. Over the course of her long career she wrote over thirty books and essays, poems and articles. She died in 1896.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR007486432

ISBN 13

9780099595830

ISBN 10

0099595834

Titre

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe

Auteur

Harriet Beecher Stowe

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Vintage Publishing

Année de publication

2015-02-05

Nombre de pages

512

Prix

N/A

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