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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汤姆叔叔的小屋
比想象中的要好看很多。 爱与善良的故事,心灵净化书。 好吧,看完之后我都想用那个小女孩的名字做英文名。
评分看之前早就被这本书的重要意义给洗脑了 我关注了两点 1.善与恶太分明,人性的复杂性完全给忽略掉了好伐,不是所有人从头坏到脚,善良的人就是天使下凡吧。。。 2.软广告啊软广告啊,看完之后我都快被洗脑了。信基督啊!亲 汤姆叔叔最后和少爷告别的时候我鼻子都酸了 明知道是...
评分曾经的奴隶制度让我感觉到后怕,这似乎是人类野蛮的行为,如何会出现在一个高度文明的国家。这不禁让我想起了可耻的日侵华事件,民族可以原谅却永远不能释怀,伤疤总会结痂,但想起总会隐隐作痛。 一个人的灵魂和肉体经过无数次的贱卖,使多少妻离子散,多少...
评分林肯总统对这本书的评价是这样的:《汤姆叔叔的小屋》直接导制了南北战争。虽然有些夸张,但并非虚言。 其实这部小说从故事情节上讲并没有多么扣人心弦,换个角度,如果这本书放在今天出版,其影响力说不定连红火一时的网络小说都不如,正是因为在当时的情况下,作为一个敏感题...
评分作者的世界观太歪了。全篇充斥着天主教的软广告。多到让人无法忍受。故事也假的离奇。描写的并不是一个真实的世界,仿佛是作者脑海里的世界。好人最后就可以上天国,坏人就必将噩梦连连,同样是反对蓄奴的文章,马克吐温的就中立的多。至少他不会从神学的角度来述说奴隶们的悲...
长于情感说理,表现手法略逊
评分黑奴吁天录,小说很长,在ibook上看的,点个赞!基督徒的废奴运动的美国extention!
评分搞定原版才感觉当年看的那版翻译还真是坑爹……不自由毋宁死和宗教信仰放在一起被描述得忒美了……美到让人觉得励志意味和传教意味都过于浓重了。。
评分不对胃口
评分多面的人物不能说是round character,更确切地说是square character。性格特征善恶分明,却怎么都觉得那善的和恶的不能统一在一个个体身上。事件基本成为开始和结局,人物也不需要做决定,作者性在里面谄媚的引诱让人觉得浑身不舒服。
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