Harriet Beecher Stowe Books

Stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. Stories include: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip van winkle; the spectre bridegroom; Young Goodman Brown; Rappaccini's daughter; the fall of the house of usher; the gold bug; the pit and the pendulum; the cask of amontillado; captain kidd"s money; Benito cereno; the lightning-rod man; the diamond lens; the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county; the L1,000,000 bank note; the man that corrupted Hadley burg; the luck of roaring camp; the outcasts of poker flat; Tennessee's partner; an occurrence at owl creek bridge; a horseman in the sky; the damned thing; the turn of the screw; the jolly corner; the courting of sister wisby; the Hilton's holiday; the love-philtre of ikey schoenstein; the gift of the magi; Tobin's palm; springtime a la carte; the furnished room; "fox-in-the-morning"; the Rembrandt; the moving finger; the recovery; Maggie - a girl of the streets; the open boat; the upturned face; the clemency of the court; Lou, the prophet; a night at greenway court; the wite silence; the son of the wolf; the men of forty-mile; in a far country; Babylon revisited; a rose for Emily; big two hearted river; flight.

I read this book originally to understand what was meant by the statement: "He's an Uncle Tom." This was usually said as a derogatoy statement. After reading the book I don't think this statement has been used correctly. As a Christian who loves the Lord I have to rate it as one of the best books that every Christian should read. I guess the derogatory statement comes from what looks like a black man being in willing submission to his master. From a Christian's point of view it is actually a man of God being in submission to His God.

As it was originally written to expose the life of slavery the book obviously does that very well. I heard that Abraham Lincoln said to Harriett Beecher Stowe upon meeting her, "So, you're the women responsible for starting the Civil War." Her account of slavery is vividally brutal.

With these two aspects in mind I can say that this book has a tremendous affect on my thinking. The horrors of slavery along w/the reality of God working in the lives of both 'slave & free' are what remain in my thoughts. After reading Uncle Tom's Cabin I'm reminded that we Christians are to have the heart of a servant following Jesus' example.

This is The French's Standard Drama acting edition of the play made from the classic story, first performed in 1852. The book includes a description of the costumes, the original casts of characters, and comprehensive stage directions.

This collection was really important to me during my graduate work on African American literature in the pre-Civil War period.
The essays are written by scholars who are experts in various aspects of Black and pre-Civil War literature as well as history. They delineate a lot about the Uncle Tom and its place in the literary and political discourse that it unleashed. This book and others of its series are extremely useful for students and professors because they gather together the best articles written in the scholarly journals by key authorities on texts. They should be used more often as textbooks in courses together with the text they are written about.

Possibly a greater work of art than Uncle Tom's Cabin, Oldtown Folks gives a penetrating and panornamic view of life in a New England village in the years following the Revolutionary War, and before the coming of the railroad and the steam engine. This book is beautiful, filled with rich insights about people and very humorous. In gives a vivid portrait of the social life and thinking of the people in the era. Stowe wrote the book in an effort to preserve for future generations the life, which she had known growing up as a child and which she saw passing away under the force of industrialization. She succeeded marvelously. This work along with perhaps five or six other novels by Stowe are a neglected national treasure. America would not be the society it is today, if Harriet Beecher Stowe were widely read and discussed. The society which did so at the time this work was written was capable of electing Abraham Lincoln to be President. One can only hope that such a day might come again.

This is the book that started the popular rush to the Land of Flowers - Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1874 essays covering everything from picnics up Julington Creek to the mass destruction of Florida's beautiful birds for their plumage. Although Mrs. Stowe was concealing her real reasons for coming south every year from 1866 to 1884 and there were other essays too dangerous to publish in this volume, it is still a treasure trove for modern sojourners to the Sunshine State. No wonder 14,000 - 15,000 people flocked south in the first year after it was published (1875) and they haven't stopped since!

If you come to Florida and get stuck in traffic, you can blame Harriet Beecher Stowe and this book.

A funny, marvelous tale of an empty-headed, gold digging girl and the unfortunate man she marries. Try to find an edition with the original ink drawings, which add much to the period flavor. Those familiar with Stowe only from Uncle Tom's Cabin will be amazed by her talent as a light humorist.

Edited by English professors Denise Kohn, and Emily B. Todd, and English university lecturer Sarah Meer, Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture is an anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors concerning the literary writings of Harriet Beecher Stow, perhaps best known for her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Transatlantic Stowe particularly focuses upon Stowe's personal and literary ventures into Europe, drawing upon source material from London and Paris as well as Stowe's own writings. Essays include "'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and the Irish National Tale", "Stowe, Gaskell, and the Woman Reformer", "Stowe and Religious Iconography", and much more. An extensive list of works cited and an index round out this in-depth intellectual contemplation of the broad-reaching repercussions of Stowe's literature, which was wildly and internationally popular in Stowe's heyday, to the extent of being pirated by publishers. Recommended for college library literary studies shelves.

This book seems quite modern in its style and content. I have heard that it was the best selling novel by an American author in the 19th century. The book was written and distributed before the civil war occurred and was read by Northerners and Southerners alike, also by Europeans. Many of the characters seem like stereotypes but It is written for the thinking person. Many of the problems of families of undocumented workers and the people that help them are being faced or ignored by society and government today. Today it is hard to imagine a slave child being sold and separated from his mother, but it is not so hard to imagine the desperate mother going to extraordinary measures to protect her child.

This wonderful almost tearjerking novel is a must-reader. Eliza escaping the slavecatchers by grace of God and going into the hands of a protective Quaker settlement. Then Tom being sold, losing Eva, and then being sold again to a horrible bullet-headed man Simon Legree-finally to be whipped to death are just some powerful parts to name a few. There are slow parts, but they soon drop to places that leave your heart racing. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.