Harriet Beecher Stowe
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English
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From the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.
First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest farmhouse with her widowed mother an their boarder, Samuel
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Published in 1853. Topics include: Quakers, New York Courier & Enquirer, What is slavery?, Souther v. The Commonwealth, Protective statutes, Protective acts of South Carolina & Louisiana, Protective acts with regard to Food & Raiment, Labor, etc., Tom v. Legree, Execution of justice, State v. Eliza Rowans, Moderate correction & accidental death, State v. Castleman, State v. Legree, Triumph of justice over law, Roman law of slavery vs. American slavery,...
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Phillips, Sampson and Co
Pub. Date
1856.
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English
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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. A tale of greed, betrayal, and rebellion, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp displays her impressive imaginative range and admirable moral outlook while illuminating aspects of early American...
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and abolitionist who is best remembered as the creator of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a much-beloved novel that brought emotional resonance and depth to the debate over slavery. This fascinating collection documents some of Beecher Stowe's writing on the topic of spiritualism, particularly a history of Salem Witchcraft. Originally published in The Phrenological Journal, these articles are sure to fascinate
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Stream Readers
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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La cabaña del tío Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) es una novela de la escritora estadounidense Harriet Beecher Stowe. Se publicó por primera vez, de forma serializada, en el periódico abolicionista The National Era, entre el 5 de junio de 1851 y el 1 de abril de 1852. Luego, salió como libro en 1852.
La obra tiene la esclavitud como tema central. Narra principalmente la historia del tío Tom, esclavo que trabaja hace años
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Arno Press
Pub. Date
1968.
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English
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a "supplement" book published to document Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling book and anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. An instant classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin (which was first published in 1852) had a profound impact on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States. Stowe's novel, which was highly controversial at the time, provoked a firestorm of competing and contradictory responses among...
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Berkeley library ; 0
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English
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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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An enjoyable collection of animal stories from the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin… Meant to enchant and instruct young listeners, Harriet Beecher Stowe sees through the eyes of the forest creatures, large and small, and shows us how things might work in the adventure of growing "big." Queer Little Folks includes:
• "Hen That Hatched Ducks"
• "The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge"
• "The History of Tip-Top"
• "Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket"...
10) Oldtown folks
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1966.
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English
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote this 1869 novel with the intent of describing a New England village's life and character in the years after the Revolutionary War, before the advent of industrialization. Said Stowe, in the voice of the novel's narrator Horace Holyoke, "I would endeavor to show you New England in its seed-bed, before the hot suns of modern progress had developed its sprouting germs into the great trees of today."...
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J.B. Ford and Company
Pub. Date
1872.
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English
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"[Harriet Beecher Stowe's] love story involves Harry Henderson, the narrator, who comes to New York to work in publishing, and Eva Van Arsdale, the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street financier. But while Stowe develops the love story, she also evokes three major forms of nostalgia widely expressed in middle-class culture during this time: the longing for the kind of religious experience that presumably existed in the past, the longing for communion...
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Michel Lévy
Pub. Date
1862.
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Français
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Extrait : "A une heure avancée d'une glaciale après-midi de février, deux gentils hommes étaient assis, en tiers avec une bouteille, dans une confortable salle à manger de la ville de P***, au Kentucky. Pas un domestique n'était présent, et les chaises rapprochées indiquaient que le sujet en question était chaudement débattu."
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English
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"The rural tranquillity of the lonely, pine-girthed shores of the Maine coast is the setting for this beautiful novel of conflicting aspirations written by one of the most prolific and influential writers in American history. Here is the heartwarming story of a young girl's struggle to belong and fit in, in the face of adversity, and of her upbringing among strong women, grumpy fishermen, annoying gossips, sea captains, and the dreamlike, temptestuous...
