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Uncle Tom's Cabin de Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tantor Unabridged Classics

Autor Harriet Beecher Stowe Richard Allen
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 30 noi 2008 – vârsta de la 14 până la 18 ani

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Găsim în paginile acestui volum o arhitectură narativă ce împletește destine multiple, construite prin perspective care se ramifică din inima suferinței și a speranței. Deși figura centrală rămâne unchiul Tom, structura operei permite cititorului să urmărească traiectorii paralele, precum fuga disperată a Elizei sau dilemele morale ale familiei Shelby. Această ediție Collins Classics nu se limitează la textul literar, ci oferă un aparat critic impresionant, incluzând prefețele originale din 1852 și documente istorice despre mișcarea aboliționistă, elemente care ancorează ficțiunea în realitatea brutală a vremii. Suntem de părere că forța cărții rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma discursul politic în emoție pură, folosind dragostea creștină ca antidot pentru dezumanizare. În tradiția scrierilor lui Harriet Beecher Stowe, cum este și American Woman's Home, acest roman continuă să exploreze valorile morale și structura socială americană, însă o face cu o virulență și o pasiune care au transformat-o într-un fenomen mondial. Față de alte lucrări ale epocii, Uncle Tom's Cabin se distinge prin refuzul autoarei de a se ascunde în spatele unui anonimat protectiv, abordând frontal teme precum rasa și naționalismul. Credem că ritmul narațiunii, deși marcat de sentimentalismul specific secolului al XIX-lea, păstrează o actualitate frapantă prin modul în care analizează relațiile de putere și demnitatea umană în fața opresiunii.

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ISBN-13: 9781400160396
ISBN-10: 1400160391
Dimensiuni: 134 x 189 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: TANTOR MEDIA INC
Seria Tantor Unabridged Classics

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile profunde ale literaturii sociale americane. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o perspectivă istorică asupra sclaviei, ci și o lecție despre puterea cuvântului scris de a schimba cursul istoriei. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru cei care apreciază romanele care îmbină conștiința morală cu o poveste umană zguduitoare, fiind un document cultural esențial pentru înțelegerea drepturilor omului.

Despre autor

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) a fost o scriitoare și aboliționistă americană de renume, provenind dintr-o familie cu puternice convingeri religioase. Cariera sa a fost marcată de publicarea a peste 30 de volume, însă Uncle Tom's Cabin rămâne lucrarea care a propulsat-o pe scena internațională, devenind o figură emblematică a luptei împotriva sclaviei. Spre deosebire de multe contemporane, Stowe și-a asumat public opiniile, indiferent de controversele generate. Opera sa reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru justiție socială și moralitate creștină, influențând decisiv opinia publică din Statele Unite și Marea Britanie în secolul al XIX-lea.

Descriere scurtă

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza—to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hates the idea of doing this because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the old man as his friend and mentor.When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands of people by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time.

Recenzii

"Allen masterfully elicits an array of Southern dialects for Stowe's variety of characters. His thoughtful, engaged performance creates a memorable audio experience." ---AudioFile

Notă biografică

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, to Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist preacher and activist in the antislavery movement, and Roxana Foote, a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was four years old. Precocious and independent as a child, Stowe enrolled in the seminary run by her eldest sister, Catharine, where she received a traditionally "male" education. At the age of twenty-one, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary, and in 1936, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary and an ardent critic of slavery. The Stowes supported the Underground Railroad and housed several fugitive slaves in their home. They eventually moved to Brunswick, Maine, where Calvin taught at Bowdoin College.In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives. Stowe was moved to present her objections on paper, and in June 1851, the first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in the antislavery journal National Era. The forty-year-old mother of seven children sparked a national debate and, as Abraham Lincoln is said to have noted, a war. Uncle Tom's Cabin met with mixed reviews when it appeared in book form in 1852, but it soon became an international bestseller. Some critics dismissed it as abolitionist propaganda, while others hailed it as a masterpiece. The great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy praised Uncle Tom's Cabin as "flowing from love of God and man." Stowe presented her sources to substantiate her claims in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which It Is Based, published in 1853. Another antislavery novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, appeared in 1856 but was received with neither the notoriety nor the success of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe fueled another controversy in The True Story of Lady Byron's Life, in which she accused the poet Lord Byron of having an incestuous love affair with his half sister, Lady Byron. She also took up the topic of domestic culture in works that include The New Housekeeper's Manual, written with her sister Catharine. Stowe died on July 1, 1896, at the age of eighty-five, in Hartford, Connecticut. Richard Allen is a five-time Audie-nominated narrator whose work has been acknowledged on the Best Audiobooks Lists for Audiofile and Library Journal. He was named an AudioFile Best Voice in 2008 and has won four AudioFile Earphones Awards. His audiobooks include From Midnight to Dawn, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney, Futureland, and Right as Rain.

Descriere

In the controversial and abrasive Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people through her moving portrayal of the slave experience.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Appendix A: Frontispiece and Illustrations for the first American Edition (1852)
Appendix B: The European Prefaces to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the English Edition (1852)
  2. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the European Edition (1852)
  3. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the French Illustrated Edition (1853)
  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the French Edition (1852-53)
Appendix C: Abolitionist, Colonization, and Proslavery Movements
  1. “Preamble,” to the Constitution of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society (1787), and Sections 1-3 from“An ACT to give Relief to certain Persons taking Refuge in [the] State [of Pennsylvania], with Respectto their Slaves” (1780)
  2. From David Walker, Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble,To the Coloured Citizens of theWorld, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1830)
  3. William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public,” The Liberator (1 January 1831)
  4. From Lyman Beecher, “Dr. Beecher’s Address,” The African Repository and Colonial Journal (November1834)
  5. “A Declaration of the Sentiments of the People of Hartford, Regarding the Measures of the Abolitionists”(1835)
  6. Maria Chapman, et al., “Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society to the Women of Massachusetts,” The Liberator (13 August 1836)
  7. William Lloyd Garrison, “The American Union,” The Liberator (10 January 1845)
  8. From George Fitzhugh, “The Universal Slave Trade,” Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Appendix D: Stowe’s Letters, 1836-53
  1. Georgiana May (6 January 1836)
  2. Calvin Stowe (16 June 1845)
  3. Calvin Stowe (29 June 1849)
  4. Henry Ward Beecher (1 February 1851)
  5. Gamaliel Bailey (9 March 1851)
  6. Elizabeth Cabot Follen (16 December 1852)
Appendix E: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the “Higher Law” Debate
  1. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 with a Synopsis and Poem by S.M. Africanus (1850)
  2. From Charles Beecher, “The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws. A Sermon on the Fugitive SlaveLaw” (1851)
  3. John C. Lord, “‘The Higher Law’ in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the DutiesMen Owe to God and to Governments” (1851)
Appendix F: Contemporary Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Section 1: Abolitionist and African American Views
  1. William Lloyd Garrison, “In the execution of her very familiar task,” The Liberator (26 March 1852)
  2. William G. Allen, “I have recently read ‘Uncle Tom,’ Frederick Douglass’s Paper (20 May 1852)
  3. “Letter from Martin Delany,” with “Remarks” by Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass’s Paper (1 April 1853)
Section 2: Proslavery and Southern Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  1. Unsigned reprint, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” The New York Observer (21 October 1852)
  2. From Louisa S. McCord, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Southern Quarterly Review (January 1853)
  3. Mary Chesnut, Diary entries from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1861-65)
Section 3: European Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  1. “American Slavery,” New York Times (18 September 1852)
  2. George Sand, “Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” La Presse (17 December 1852)
  3. From Émile Montégut, “The Abolitionist Novel in America,” Revue des deux mondes (October-December, 1852)
  4. Anonymous, from “The American Novel: Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Allgemeine Zeitung (7-8 October 1852)
  5. “B,” “Mistress Harriet Beecher-Stowe and the Novel,” El Universo Pintoresco (15 July 1853)
Appendix G: Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Stage
  1. “J,” “Mrs. Stowe’s Drama,” [Review of Mary Webb’s performance of “The Christian Slave”], The Liberator (14 December 1855)
  2. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Barnum’s,” New York Daily Tribune (15 November 1853)
  3. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Barnum’s Museum,” Illustrated News (26 November 1853)
  4. “I am going there, or the death of little Eve,” Lithograph (1852)
  5. “The famous Jarrett & Palmer London Company consolidated with Slavin’s Original American Troupein Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Lithograph (1881)
  6. “Eliza,” from George Peck’s grand revival of Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin booked by Klaw & Erlanger (1886)
  7. “Old Uncle Tom,” Palmer’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co, Lithograph (1899)
  8. “Little Eva’s Death Scene,” Scene from stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1901)
  9. “In The Cotton Field,” Cotton Picking Scene from stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1901)
  10. Eugene Lund, from “Trouping with Uncle Tom,” Century Magazine (1928)
  11. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin new Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co.,” Lithograph (1923)
  12. “Poster or lobby card for 1958 colorized and narrated re-release of Universal Studio’s 1927 Super-Jewel Production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,Told by Raymond Massey”
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