The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier: Cowboys, Indians, Outlaws, Lawmen, Bounty Hunters and Six-Gun Killers of the Old West, Bronson Edgar Beecher

Автор: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Название: Uncle Tom`s Cabin
ISBN: 0451530802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451530806
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless and moving novel, an incendiary work that fanned the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the story of the slave Tom. Devout and loyal, he is sold and sent down south, where he endures brutal treatment at the hands of the degenerate plantation owner Simon Legree. By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Stowe explores society's failures and asks a profound question: "What is it to be a moral human being?" And as the novel that helped to move a nation to battle, Uncle Tom's Cabin is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people.

With an Introduction by Darryl Pinckney
and an Afterword by Jonathan Arac

Автор: Beecher Stowe Harriet
Название: Uncle Tom`s Cabin
ISBN: 0007902263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007902262
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

Автор: Bronson, Charles
Название: Bronson
ISBN: 1844546551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844546558
Издательство: Bonnier Books
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Описание: Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. When he is unlocked, up to 12 prison officers - sometimes in riot gear and with dogs - are standing by. His story is being turned into a Hollywood film. In this autobiography, he reveals the truth about his extraordinary life behind bars.

Автор: Bronson, Po
Название: What should i do with my life?
ISBN: 0099437996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099437994
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Aims to tackle the most obvious question that anyone has to face, `what should I do with my life?` This book presents an account of finding and following people who have uprooted their lives and fought with these questions in radical ways. It features the stories of individual dilemma and drama.

Автор: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Author), Sklar, Kathryn Ki
Название: Stowe: Three Novels ( Library of America )
ISBN: 0940450011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940450011
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In this Library of America volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman," as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in 1861, "who wrote the book that made this great war." He was referring, with rueful exaggeration, to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which during its first year had sold over 300,000 copies. Contemporary readers can still appreciate the powerful effects of its melodramatic characterizations and its unapologetic sentimentality. They can also recognize in its treatment of racial violence some of the brooding imagination and realism that anticipates Faulkner's rendering of the same theme. Stowe was charged with exaggerating the evils of slavery, but her stay in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father (the formidable Lyman Beecher, head of the Lane Theological Seminary) gave her a close look at the miseries of the slave communities across the Ohio River. People in her circle of friends were continually harboring slaves who escaped across the river from Kentucky on the way, they hoped, to Canada.

Two other novels, along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, show the range and variety of her literary accomplishment. The Minister's Wooing (1859) is set in Newport, Rhode Island, after the Revolution. It is a romance based in part on the life of Stowe's sister, and it traces to a happy ending the conflicts in a young woman between adherence to Calvinistic rigor and her expression of preference in the choice of a marital partner. The third novel, Oldtown Folks (1869), confirms Stowe's genius for the realistic rendering of ordinary experience, her talent for social portraiture with a keen satiric edge, and her subtlety in exploring a wide group of themes, from child-rearing practices and religious controversy to romantic seduction and betrayal. But finally, it is the old town and a way of life that no longer exists that is the true subject of this elegiac novel.