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Dred
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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And Tiff rose up with the greatest precaution, and glancing every moment towards the bed, and almost tipping himself over in his anxiety to walk softly, advanced to the rude door, which opened with a wooden latch and string, opened it carefully, and looked out. Looking out with him, we perceive that the little hut stands alone, in the heart of a dense pine forest, which shuts it in on every side.
Tiff held the door open a few moments to listen. No sound was heard but the shivering wind, swaying and surging in melancholy cadences through the long pine-leaves,—a lonesome, wailing, uncertain sound.
"Ah! dese yer pine-trees! dey always a talkin'!" said Tiff to himself, in a sort of soliloquy. "Whisper, whisper, whisper! De Lord knows what it's all about! dey never tells folks what dey wants to know. H. . . Read More
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A few years after college, having learned that authors like Dostoevsky and Dickens admired it, I decided to read Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. I remember being very impressed by the way Stowe created characters who embodied a wide range of positions on slavery. Uncle Tom was perhaps an
I think this book is better than Uncle Tom's Cabin in many ways. It is great to see people actually fighting against slavery in their words and actions after all the empathy Stowe built up in her previous book. I also think that Dred is a much more interesting and complex character than Tom, and eve
I have to say, I’m surprised that this book is reviewed as positively as it is. While, from a story standpoint, it seems much more compelling than Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it is, as a novel, significantly (and frustratingly) less organized. That being said, I have yet to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin in full, al
Read this if you think we're the 'intelligent ones' in this century. H. B. Stowe grasped the motives and the minds of Americans pre-civil war: those who professed 'religion' and those oppressed by the cruel economy and stupidly 'romantic' plantation families of the south. . . . how we are ultimately
Though containing a few more fantastical elements than Uncle Toms Cabin, this was a compelling read.
The content can be chilling and cruel at times, but that makes the characters conquest of their trouble all the more compelling.
The beast is slain. Now let's write a BA thesis about it.
This book was so much better than Uncle Tom's Cabin, but so few people know about it. Beautiful writing, great history, touching look at humanity...it delivers. Here's a quote to whet your appetites:
"As air and heat and water all have a benevolent tendency to enter and fill up a vacuum, so we might
I cried through this whole book. It was an emotional rollercoaster. Almost everybody dies. The storytelling was expertly crafted. Very spiritual mode of conveying a plea for abolition. I never cried so much through 200,000 words in my life. ;_;