Beschreibung
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter ¿ she drew on her anger from this to write Uncle Tom's Cabin , which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century after the Bible. It was hugely influential in the abolition debate, and catapulted Stowe into the spotlight. When President Abraham Lincolm met her he is reported to have described her as ¿the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War¿. Over the course of her long career she wrote over thirty books and essays, poems and articles. She died in 1896.
| EAN: | 9780099595830 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 05.02.2015 |
| Titel der Reihe: | Vintage Classics## |
| Autoren: | Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 494 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Classics |
| Keyword: | the picture of dorian gray; james baldwin; gone with the wind; mrs dalloway; wide sargasso sea; remains of the day; their eyes were watching god; my cousin rachel; the ragged trousered philanthropist; picture of dorian grey; american civil war; huckleberry finn; vintage classics; black history; george eliot; zora neale hurston; history of racism; alex haley; african american; slaves of solitude; top 10 fiction; the rebellion chronicles; black authors; top ten fiction; hitorical; slavery and capitalism; labours civil wars; 15 decisive battles; classic |
| Fachschema: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~USA / Roman, Erzählung~Kentucky~Afroamerikaner / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Klassische Belletristik~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Soziales~Klassische Lyrik, Lyrik bis 1900 |
| Interesse Alter: | Bezug zu Afroamerikanern |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |
| Höhe: | 38 mm |