UNCLE TOM'S CABIN - Harriet Beecher Stow. Richard Allen {FerraBit}

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stow (1852) Read by . . : Richard Allen Publisher . : Tantor Media (2008) ISBN . . . .: 1400160391 | 9781400160396 Format . . .: MP3. 45 tracks, 887 MB Bitrate . . : ~100 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Mono, 44.1 kHz) Source . . .: 2 MP3-CDs (20.5 hrs) Genre . . . : Fiction, Classics Unabridged .: Unabridged "Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible." PDF included - ESL, ebook & reference friendly. Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included. Thanks for sharing & caring. Cheers, FerraBit Oct 2010 Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin Originally posted: https://thepiratebay.se/user/FerraBit (TPB), Demonoid, KickAssTorrents Please present your FPL card, and comment me some loving. ______________________________________ From Tantor: 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. - - - From Wiki: Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, focused the novel on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change." The book, and even more the plays it inspired, also helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people, many of which endure to this day. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool."

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mangoa (2010-11-09)

thank you FerraBit :)

foley8 (2011-03-06)

What a wonderful book this is. Thanks so much.

Ardo77 (2012-03-14)

Can I get a seed please!!

yaycobD (2013-02-24)

Really gonna help me with my history class, thank you. I'll seed from time to time.