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Agnes of Sorrento

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .as represented as a pure-looking, pensive child, standing in a thoughtful attitude, with long ripples of golden hair flowing down over a simple white tunic, and her small hands clasping a cross on her bosom, while, kneeling at her feet, obsequious slaves and tire-women were offering the richest gems and the most gorgeous robes to her serious and abstracted gaze.

In another, she was represented as walking modestly to school, and winning the admiration of the son of the Roman Prætor, who fell sick—so says the legend—for the love of her.

Then there was the demand of her hand in marriage by the princely father of the young man, and her calm rejection of the gorgeous gifts and splendid gems which he had brought to purchase her consent.

Then followed in order her accusation before the tribunals as a Christian, her trial, and the various scenes of her martyrdom.

Although the drawing of the figures and the treatment of the s. . . Read More

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3.00
- Ann - Aug 09, 2023

I loved the story and characters. I just wish she didn't describe so much stuff. All her sentences are beautiful, but there are just too many. Everyone once in a while she will paint a perfect picture, but mostly, I just glaze over until something happens.

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- Michelle - Feb 15, 2021

Since I portray Stowe at The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and at local Civil War re-enactments, I have been reading her entire oeuvre, including her more obscure works. Agnes of Sorrento was published ten years after Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the book that made her rich and famous. She was inspired by her

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