Book Description
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
This novel has earned the title of not only bestseller, but also the first protest novel to have a direct impact on political events. The story follows the life and vissitudes of Uncle Tom, a noble negro, and portrays the humanity of an enslaved black people and the moral evil of their enslavement.
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
This is one of those books that everybody has heard about but few people these days have actually read. It deserves to be read - not simply because it is the basis for symbols so deeply ingrained in American culture that we no longer realize their source, nor because it is one of the bestselling books of all time. This is a book that changed history. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. It is unabashed propaganda and overtly moralistic, an attempt to make whites - North and South - see slaves as mothers, fathers, and people with (Christian) souls. In a time when women might see the majority of their children die, Harriet Beecher Stowe portrays beautiful Eliza fleeing slavery to protect her son. In a time when many whites claimed slavery had "good effects" on blacks, Uncle Tom's Cabin paints pictures of three plantations, each worse than the other, where even the best plantation leaves a slave at the mercy of fate or debt. By twentieth-century standards, her propaganda verges on melodrama, and it is clear that even while arguing for the abolition of slavery she did not rise above her own racism. Yet her questions remain penetrating even today: "Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power?"
From AudioFile
Classic nineteenth-century literature can be difficult to read and hear. But this production is an exception. Buck Schirner's characters are so vivid, so well enunciated, that we wish Stowe had created more people for Schirner to give voice to. His characters argue about slavery, lament their fortunes and survive by their wits. He gives each person emotion and depth and reads Stowe's prose with conviction. Indeed, it's hard not to, given the moral force behind her words. The only negative is when Schirner reads in his own voice, which is low and flat. Because of his excellent vocal work, though, the book reminds us that the debate over race and human worth was as vivid in the 1850's as it is today. R.I.G.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
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湯姆叔叔的小屋
虽说不能以现在的目光来完全否定一部作品。但是现在再读这本书,我本人已经不是那个小学生,而且也脱离了当时南北战争的背景,我读的是经典译林版本,也许是翻译的缘故(不过经典译林的应该不会有什么问题),它的文笔给我一种幼儿读物的感觉 作者能看到问题并写出还是很不容易...
評分我是不会写东西的,在这写书评无疑就是把自己当靶子,就像圣·克莱尔先生那样,只批驳别人却不设自己的立场,大概才更符合我的性格。 这本书,我八岁开始看,看过许多版本,少年时有缩略的--我极度痛恨的版本,后来看完整的译文,高二时看了原版。这本书从不离开我...
評分《汤姆叔叔的小屋》单行本发行于一八五二年,距离美国南北战争爆发还有八年的时间。一百五十八年后,我终于有空读完了它,由衷感慨作者斯托夫人高尚的人道主义情操。 在斯托夫人生活的时代,南北战争还没有爆发,在美国,蓄奴在很多州里还是合法的行为。不过,从斯托夫...
評分我是不会写东西的,在这写书评无疑就是把自己当靶子,就像圣·克莱尔先生那样,只批驳别人却不设自己的立场,大概才更符合我的性格。 这本书,我八岁开始看,看过许多版本,少年时有缩略的--我极度痛恨的版本,后来看完整的译文,高二时看了原版。这本书从不离开我...
還不錯,很易讀,故事也比較抓人。
评分High IF story
评分不對胃口
评分大學期間讀過的眾多英文原著中的一本
评分小時候看的是簡寫版,挺喜歡這個故事(因為是小孩子所以隻記得住美好的一麵),於是長大後重溫。政治性大於文學性,真實深刻,但宗教說教占比太重。
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