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(0)Harriet Beecher Stowe
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English
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
Stowe, a Connecticutborn woman of English descent, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict...
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
xiii, 447 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When it burst onto the literary scene in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in America. So much so that when President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he half-jokingly said that she instigated the Civil War. Few books, if any, have been as widely circulated as Unlce Tom's Cabin was when it was first published. And over 100 years later, it remains controversial ... The book engages readers with the compelling adventures of...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novelization of the harsh realities of slavery was a catalyst for the anti-slavery movement and remains a landmark in American literature. This 1927 film adaptation.
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English
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Published in 1873 in New York, The New Housekeeper's Manual was written by Catharine Esther Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, two of the most influential women writers and activists of their time. Both women exerted profound influence on American letters and on the shape of American domestic life and educational reform. The book combines two works by the sisters in one volume. The American Woman's Home: Or Principles of Domestic Science...
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English
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"The Optimist's Good Morning" by Thomas Carlyle, Henrik Ibsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, George MacDonald, William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Browning, Marcus Aurelius, Leonardo da Vinci. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary...
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Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Thanksgiving is an American tradition, celebrating the coming of autumn, the bounty of the harvest, the peaceful coexistence of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, football, family—and, of course, the obligatory celebration feast. Here are 35 tales celebrating Thanksgiving in all its forms, by classic authors you know and love (O. Henry, Harriet Becher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne) and others who may be new to you.
Included are:
TWO
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English
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Thanksgiving is an American tradition, celebrating the coming of autumn, the bounty of the harvest, the peaceful coexistence of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, football, family - and, of course, the obligatory celebration feast. Here are 35 tales celebrating Thanksgiving in all its forms, by classic authors you know and love (O. Henry, Harriet Becher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne) and others who may be new to you.
Included are:
TWO THANKSGIVING...
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English
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"The World's Best Poetry: Sorrow and Consolation" by Heinrich Heine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew Lang, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eugene Field, John Milton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Austin Dobson, Francis Bacon, Lyman Abbott, Lord Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary...
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English
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Christmas-the very word conjures up memories of the most wondrous childhood holiday of all-filled with the glitter of colorfully-wrapped presents, family visits, carols, photographs, decorating the tree, attendance at church to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, and tummy-stuffing dinners tucked with treats seen at no other time of the year.
But the yule holiday has been celebrated for at least two centuries in North America, and our writers...
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English
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Musaicum Books presents to you a unique collection of the recorded testimonies of former slaves, memoirs, historical studies, reports of the life and laws in the south, legislation on civil rights, as well as popular fiction, which unveiled the injustice and horrors of slavery to the masses:
Slave Narratives
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Underground Railroad
Harriet: The Moses of Her People
12 Years a Slave
Life, Last Words and Dying...
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English
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We return for another selection of 25 ghost stories in the classic tradition -- chosen from the vast storehouse of history's fiction for your personal delectation. As in our last meeting, we remind you that there are many kinds of ghosts, from the kind to cruel, the savage to the sad, and readers should not always assume they know just which they've gotten in any particular tale.
Included are:
THE SEVENTH MAN, by A.T. Quiller-Couch
THE PHANTOM...
