Hardcover, 400 pages
Spanish language
Published 1998 by Círculo de Lectores.
Uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura universal del que casi todo el mundo ha oído hablar pero que casi nadie ha leído. Considerada e incluida tradicionalmente en colecciones de clásicos juveniles, es sin embargo una obra altamente significativa de una época trascendental en la historia contemporánea de Estados Unidos.
Abolicionista per negres catòlics exclusivament. Molt, molt, molt racista.
It was very good, and very spiritual. It bordered on spiritual reading, I think. If you haven't read it, and think the term "Uncle Tom" is an euphemism for a turncoat slave or someone who betrayed their roots, that thought is dead wrong.
I feel like the primary reason this is thought is because of increased secularism and atheism in the world. If you are a Christian, everything the characters do makes 100% sense.
It was very good, and very spiritual. It bordered on spiritual reading, I think. If you haven't read it, and think the term "Uncle Tom" is an euphemism for a turncoat slave or someone who betrayed their roots, that thought is dead wrong.
I feel like the primary reason this is thought is because of increased secularism and atheism in the world. If you are a Christian, everything the characters do makes 100% sense.
Really good story. However, the slave dialogue was a bit to get used to. Once that happened, I couldn't quit reading the book.
Really good story. However, the slave dialogue was a bit to get used to. Once that happened, I couldn't quit reading the book.
"Poor critters."
"Poor critters."
"Poor critters."
"Poor critters."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a rare novel. It was, after the Bible, the best selling book of the entire nineteenth century, and remains one of the few fictional works that can be said to have had a direct and appreciable impact on history. But perceptions of the novel and its reputation has often overshadowed the content of the novel. While I would not dismiss many contemporary criticisms of the book, including its portrayal of blacks as innately religious, I urge the reader to look past its stereotypes and saccharine sentimentality. The novel is immensely passionate and deeply affecting, even over one-hundred and fifty years since its first publication, and provides the reader with an unparallelled glimpse into the imaginative world of Antebellum America. I would recommend that any student of American history make the effort to get through the book - its worth the effort!
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a rare novel. It was, after the Bible, the best selling book of the entire nineteenth century, and remains one of the few fictional works that can be said to have had a direct and appreciable impact on history. But perceptions of the novel and its reputation has often overshadowed the content of the novel. While I would not dismiss many contemporary criticisms of the book, including its portrayal of blacks as innately religious, I urge the reader to look past its stereotypes and saccharine sentimentality. The novel is immensely passionate and deeply affecting, even over one-hundred and fifty years since its first publication, and provides the reader with an unparallelled glimpse into the imaginative world of Antebellum America. I would recommend that any student of American history make the effort to get through the book - its worth the effort!
The benefits of Christianity, as described here, are so bountiful that one wonders how slavery dared to exist in its presence. The story is so replete with Jesus figures that the author has to juggle them carefully to avoid a scene where they must all sacrifice themselves en masse. The author is to be commended for restricting her anti-semitism to only a single line.
The benefits of Christianity, as described here, are so bountiful that one wonders how slavery dared to exist in its presence. The story is so replete with Jesus figures that the author has to juggle them carefully to avoid a scene where they must all sacrifice themselves en masse. The author is to be commended for restricting her anti-semitism to only a single line.
The religious morality is certainly laid on thick with a shovel, like many books of that period. Nonetheless, it's a book well worth reading, not least because of the global impact it had at the time. I can't say I was 100% a fan of the author's writing style, but it would be hard not to appreciate her sincerity, and the essential truths of the story (most of which was based on real incidents), and it's hard not to sympathize with some of the characters and get caught up in their lives and problems.
The religious morality is certainly laid on thick with a shovel, like many books of that period. Nonetheless, it's a book well worth reading, not least because of the global impact it had at the time. I can't say I was 100% a fan of the author's writing style, but it would be hard not to appreciate her sincerity, and the essential truths of the story (most of which was based on real incidents), and it's hard not to sympathize with some of the characters and get caught up in their lives and problems.
Overly simplistic sometimes and melodramatic always, but anyone who doesn't cry reading this book isn't human.
Overly simplistic sometimes and melodramatic always, but anyone who doesn't cry reading this book isn't human.
