Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"The story of the slave Tom. Devout and loyal, he is sold and sent down south, where he endures brutal treatment at the hands of the degenerate plantation owner Simon Legree. By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Stowe explores society's failures and asks a profound question: "What is it to be a moral human being?""-- Amazon.com
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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe's follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom's Cabin that features critical information supporting the brutally honest portrayal of institutional slavery. Due to an overwhelming response, it was, published one-year after the original novel. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a detailed explanation of the practices and imagery portrayed in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The previous novel was, harshly criticized by Southerners,...
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Oldtown Fireside Stories (1872) is a collection of children's stories 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. These stories capture her imaginative range and moral outlook while illuminating aspects of American life that would otherwise be consigned to history. Two boys bored of provincial life ask...
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In Harriet Beecher Stowe's short story, Christmas in Poganuc, a young New England girl, Dolly, is left alone while the village gathers at the church to celebrate Christmas. This timeless holiday classic was first published in the collection, A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, in 1895. It follows up on Harriet Beecher Stowe's earlier work Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives.
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Published in 1868, this collection of biographical narratives of "Leading Patriots of the Day" includes chapters on Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others.
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Stowe was the daughter of a prominent preacher, and the sister of the famous minister Henry Ward Beecher. This 1877 anthology of original and classic Christian hymns, essays, and homilies is organized by holiday, presenting thoughts for Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, Lent, Passion Week, Easter, and the Ascension.
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The heroine of this 1862 historical novel is Agnes, a country girl living amidst the spiritual tranquility of an Italian convent. With her hand sought by a cast-out Italian prince, she is torn between the prospect of love and her sense of duty to the charismatic monk Savonarola, the instigator of the original and actual fifteenth-century "Bonfire of the Vanities."
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Mary Scudder and her mother live a modest life in a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Their boarder is a famous Calvinist theologian who preaches against slavery. Torn between her Calvinist upbringing and her love for the skeptic James Marvyn, Mary is forced to make a decision about her future when Marvyn is reportedly lost at sea.
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Self-help books aim to help the reader with problems, offering them clear and effective guidance on how obstacles can be passed and solutions found-especially with regard to common issues and day-to-day life. Such books take their name from the 1859 best-selling "Self-Help" by Samuel Smiles, and are also often referred to as "self-improvement" books. First published in 1866, "Little Foxes" is a vintage self-help book that concentrates on maintaining...
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Here are collected three of Beecher's most treasured short stories. In "Betty's Bright Idea," a sweet young girl forms a bond with a poor family and is determined to help them make a better life for themselves. In "Deacon Pitkin's farm," a young boy whose family can no longer afford payments on their house chooses to forego schooling in order to help make money for his struggling kin. Lastly, "The First Christmas in New England" documents the first...
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Best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin, her classic depiction of slavery that crysalized sentiment in the abolitionist cause, Harriet Beecher Stowe was also the author of this lesser-known but wonderfully rich reminiscence of life in early 19th century New England. Poganuc People was Stowe's last novel.
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Duke Classics
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2013
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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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Here you will find the complete novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
- The Minister's Wooing
- The Pearl of Orr's Island
- My Wife and I
- Agnes of Sorrento
- Oldtown Folks
- Pink and White Tyranny
- We and Our Neighbors
- Poganuc People
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The first of Stowe's society novels, this amusing tale tells the story of a spoiled, gold-digging belle named Lillie Ellis and the upstanding but unfortunate man who is duped into marrying her. A delightful book that also provides insight into the institution of marriage in the nineteenth century, Pink and White Tyranny is an entertaining work by this iconic American writer.
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A fascinating account of the separation of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, defending her role in the controversy. Lord Byron is best known as a poet, as well as being the father of the world's first computer programmer, Ada Countess of Lovelace.
19) Oldtown Folks
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Oldtown Folks (1869) 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 family, faith, and perseverance, Oldtown Folks displays her impressive imaginative range and admirable moral outlook while illuminating aspects of early American life that would otherwise be consigned to history....
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In Harriet Beecher Stowe's How We Kept Thanksgiving at Old Town, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin recalls the Thanksgiving celebrations of her youth in New England. The description of gathering at her grandmother's house for the king and high priest of all festivals is filled with exuberance, energy and good will, and communicates the idea that we should share our prosperity with others who are less fortunate.