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... was a really good reading month. I really like Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series, I'm glad I finally read Uncle Tom's Cabin , and I thought that The Wednesday Wars was excellent. But the real standouts were Their Eyes Were Watching God, which will be one of my top 2 for the ...
... stoy
-The Name of the Rose by: Umberto Eco
-My Sister's Keeper by: Jodi Picoult
-Bee Season by: Myra Goldberg
-Uncle Tom's Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Time and again by Jack Finney
-Old School by Tobias Wolff
-1,000 ...
128. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: USA
This is one of those books that I've known about for pretty much all my life, but had never read. I knew a lot of the story -- and may have seen a movie in the distant past, since I had a pretty clear picture of Eliza on the ...
Where's Simon Legree from Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
... admit this gap in my reading. Douglass’s memoir really amazed me. I was expecting something more alone the lines of Uncle Tom's Cabin where the reader is brow-beaten with the message – I think this style was needed in the time it was written but makes for a difficult read at times ...
and what about Uncle Tom's Cabin ? If you're going to put Huckleberry Finn - the 19th century version of Hee Haw! in, then how about showing Harriet Beecher Stowe some love too!
... of Pi in order to understand "themes" in American history. I never did understand that. The result was a kid who chose Uncle Tom's Cabin for his 20th century novel........
I haven't. But I did just buy it the other day and will promptly move it to the top of the TBR. I recently finished Uncle Tom's Cabin so I think it will be interesting to compare the two. Thanks for the nudge in that direction.
How about starting with Uncle Tom's Cabin and to also include all of the misoygnist books out there too? Anything that puts minorities or people with disabilities in a bad light. Anything that still counts today as Quackery. Something that says this diet will be the last one you'll ever need to ...
... The Man Without Qualities, On the Edge of Reason, Raintree County, The Shipyard, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Best Non-Fiction: The Education of Henry Adams
Tom Loker Uncle Tom's Cabin
... it.
I finally listed it on BookMooch and sent it off to someone who will (hopefuly) appreciate it.
I recently put down Uncle Tom's Cabin after only 30 pages. The problem with it is that there were several other books that were much more interesting. I think there will be a good time to ...
... Crime and Punishment in 9th grade and haven't had the heart to go back and re-read/finish it.
I was supposed to read Uncle Tom's Cabin for bookclub last month. 25 pages in I said blech. Even having a gorgeous Easton Press edition with beautiful watercolor plates didn't help.
MrAndrew ...
287. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 09/03/09
288. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 09/04/09
289. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 09/04/09
290. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky 09/05/09
287. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 09/03/09
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stove
While I understand the book’s historical importance and appreciate its message, I had a really hard time getting through this for a couple of reasons. First, the religious rhetoric was very difficult for me. I cannot agree that taking a Christian ...
... Alan Brennert (October, 4*)
7. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (November)
8. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (December)
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (December, 5*)
... want to read but promised: The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds.
Not to mention that I'm not going to get Uncle Tom's Cabin read in time for my September 13th bookclub meeting.
... fiction books of that period to help broaden my awareness of the period. Every student of the Civil War should read Uncle Tom's Cabin because it was such an important work at the time that made such a huge impact upon the actual events.
That is not historical fiction. That is ...
Since Uncle Tom's Cabin was contemporary fiction at the time, it makes perfect sense to use it; it was an important abolitionist document.
I read The Killer Angels and Uncle Tom's Cabin for a Civil War history class, so I've seen fiction used in history classes. We weren't meant to take them as fact but for some social history, to get a feel for the times.
Hi Ficus!
I'm supposed to be reading Uncle Tom's Cabin for my bookclub. One of the women always picks books that are classics or uplifting or are "good" for us, and I very rarely read them. Last year was The Merry Wives of Windsor AND Hamlet. I hate plays.
I really wanted to enjoy ...
... Douglas, which was AMAZING. I really feel like I missed out in high school because this wasn't required reading along with Uncle Tom's Cabin . Frederick Douglas was incredible articulate and explained, very reasonably, what it was like to grow up a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, to live in Bal ...
... Likeness a couple of days ago, read a page or so, and put it down. I'm restless right now. I'm supposed to be reading Uncle Tom's Cabin for bookclub, but its appeal is eluding me so far. I've got a month to get it read.
...
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Family Baggage by Monica McInerney
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
20 - I don't totally agree with his conclusions, but I found it particularly interesting because I am reading Uncle Tom's Cabin right now and wonder if in 50 years TKAM will be viewed in a similar way. I think there will always be a struggle to try to understand how progressive either was in ...
#19 karenmarie: I'm about halfway through John Adams too (and really enjoying it so far) and I just recently read Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time too.
... started.
John Adams by David McCullough - halfway through
Pride and Prejudice - re-read - about 50 pages in
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - started yesterday for September bookclub meeting
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter started yesterday too ...
update: reading list
30. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
31 The Beach House by Jane Green {I usually do not read this type of book. As I read it I felt as though I had been dropped into a Hallmark movie.}
... A Novel by Charlie Hurston
29 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Currently I am reading Uncle Tom's Cabin and Three Cups of Tea. Next I will be reading The Beach House
A large part of Uncle Tom's Cabin is set in Louisiana (Kentucky, also).
#30 FicusFan - I recently got Uncle Tom's Cabin from BookMooch, then found a leather-bound hardcover at Habitat for Humanity - so now have two. It's my August BookClub and, also having never read it, am looking forward to it.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is absolutely stunning. I can't ...
... robbery, and the kooks who keep popping up looking for it. It has many of the usual characters, and is a fun story.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Classic
I picked up a cheap B&N edition. I have never read it, and am interested. Historical Fiction with an anti-slavery ...
#15 Uncle Tom's Cabin . What can I say...towards the end I just started crying! It didn't have exactly the ending I expected - I fully expected a happy ending. I really should have realised that this would work against the whole anti-slavery motif if it had all ended in hugs and puppies. My main ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin . What can I say...towards the end I just started crying! It didn't have exactly the ending I expected - I fully expected a happy ending. I really should have realised that this would work against the whole anti-slavery motif if it had all ended in hugs and puppies. I know that ...
... I'll read another so good by the end of the month that I'll have to come back and add it!
In the order I read them:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Girl with a Pearl Earring
... of American women writers from pre-Revolutionary times through now. It is very interesting but I've only made it to Uncle Tom's Cabin so there's a long way to go!
"here, for the present, we shall take our
leave of one party."
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Come, now, what do you want?
... not necessarily timeless, but still dependent on the whims of public taste. I guess that's why not a lot of people read Uncle Tom's Cabin all that much anymore.
I was very touched by Uncle Tom's Cabin when I was about 10 years old, I remember I cried. I was changed in the sense that I became aware of slavery and cruelty, I guess.
... by Russell Hoban
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
The Pork Butcher by David Hughes
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
Uncle , Uncle Clears Up, etc. by J. P. Martin
The Guide, The Man-Eater of Malgudi, The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake
Manon Lescaut ...
... talks about how Harriet Beecher Stowe deserves an audience today. She feels Stowe's reputation suffered in the years after Uncle Tom's Cabin because it was such a political book.
I hear references to Uncle Tom's Cabin all the time but had never read it before now. It took me over a month to read but it was worth it.
The story follows Tom, a slave in Kentucky who is sold after his kind masters hit some hard times and have to settle a debt. He has the opportunity to ...
I just finished Uncle Tom's Cabin this morning. It took me a month to read, but I liked it very much. Then I started The Carnivorous Carnival because it's due back to the library on Wednesday.
I've been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin for the last few weeks. Great book!
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53. The Three Musketeers
54. The Time Machine
55. To Kill a Mockingbird
56. Treasure Island
57. Ulysses
58. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
59. Wuthering Heights
Well, I hope I got all the books, because I wasn't sure about all titles... Most of these books I either had to read for ...
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Books I have Already Read:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. Veronika Decides to Die by Paula Coelho
5. Robinson Crusoe ...
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright to us dies to us. There is a most busy and important ...
I'm still reading Uncle Tom's Cabin . It's an amazing story. I think it's taking me so long to read because I'm really appreciating it.
... it in a single NyQuil haze of an evening... it struck me as being something like Edna Pontellier (The Awakening) meets Uncle Tom's Cabin with a touch of Beloved. Dealt with the American South and one woman's unthinking complicity in the enslavement of another. Not the best novel I've ...
I'm still reading and loving Uncle Tom's Cabin !
... Franklin
Brave New World
The Grace Awakening
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Red Badge of Courage
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Candide
The Scarlet Letter
Ivanhoe
The Short Stories
Robinson Crusoe
Politics and Poetics in one volume
Lord Jim
Little Women
...
...
13- The nose *
14- The fall of the house of Usher *
15- The pit and the pendulum *
16- The three musketeers
17- Uncle Tom's cabin
18- Madame Bovary
19- Les miserables
20- Alice's adventures in wonderland
21- Little women *
22- Through the looking glass
23- Ben-Hur
2 ...
I finished Under the Banner of Heaven this evening, and started Uncle Tom's Cabin .
I just started Uncle Tom's Cabin .
"That's a difficult question, dearest."
Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Don't you want to go, papa?"
"No, thank ye -- it don't agree with me."
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Don't, eh?"
I had an 1883 Harvard Press printing of Uncle Toms Cabin that was as readable as the day it came from the bindery. The pages were supple, unfaded, and the binding was tight. I also have some Earl Stanley Garner books from the 1950 where the pages are foxing and very brittle. They are almost ...
... Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
#10 LynnB - I read Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time only a few years ago. I don't think I would have appreciated the book as much if I had read it when I was a lot younger!
I finished New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear tonight and I must say I loved the book. The stories captured the ...
I'm reading, for the first time, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Thought it would be a nice complement/contrast to The Book of Negroes by Amazing Grace, which I've also read recently.
... Warren St. John
#27 3-09-The German Woman, by Paul Griner
#26 3-09-Follow Me, by Joanna Scott
#25 3-09-Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe
#24 3-09-The Secret Keeper, by Paul Harris
#23 3-09-Meteor of War, by Zoe Trodd and John Stauffer EDS
#22 3-09 ...
... it is germane to the topic. You can't fully grasp the developing antebellum repugnance towards slavery if you don't read Uncle Tom's Cabin cover to cover -- and I didn't realize that till I put Shelby Foote down for a spell and read Stowe. So ideas are history and cannot and should not be ...
... New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
Elemental Magic by Sharon Shinn, Rebecca York, Carol Berg, Jean Johnson
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
Garp83 in History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : Why I read history (Mar 29, 2009, 8:23pm)
... Freedom by McPherson and biographies of Lincoln, but I also read primary sources, and studied maps, and I read novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Red Badge of Courage. I used immersion as my method -- just as I am currently doing with ancient Greece -- and the rewards are utterly ...
... reading a book from the 1001 list so I can kill 2 birds with one stone. Using a tag search I've come up with Beloved, Uncle Tom's Cabin , and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Has anyone read a book from the list that deals with slavery that you could recommend?
Thanks!
P.S. Here ...
Regarding Uncle Tom's Cabin , that was my pick recently for my classics book group. Part of the reason for picking it was the apocryphal story about Lincoln's words on meeting Stowe. And that it's one of those books that everybody's heard of but fewer have actually read. And my mom read it not all ...
... spend evening time with them, and that would be the only time I could find an extra hour.
Thanks for reminding me of Uncle Tom's Cabin ! I own two copies of this book--a PB and a leather bound one and have never read it. I think I'll try to read it this summer for my Classics category ...
... Maybe these points should be good for more reading - one extra hour of reading for each one?
#129 I've never read Uncle Tom's Cabin either. I've been thinking, since I'm focusing on civil war issues this year, that I really need to make that effort. There are some other slave ...
... time and place where they appeared - e.g. Waverley (established the novel as the main commercial literary form), Uncle Tom's cabin (sorted out American views on slavery), Lady Chatterley's lover (sorted out English views on freedom of the press), The front runner (made it OK to ...
... Story by Abraham Verghese
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri - personally I'm not thrilled with this one...
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
This is Not Civilization by Robert Rosenberg
Far from ...
... anyone read any fiction books about scientific racism?
I know that's kind of weird request, but I just finished reading Uncle Tom's Cabin and and I've become interested in the subject and how those (ridiculous) theories are portrayed in fiction.
Thank you!
... of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by E.A. Poe
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A little bit of everything.....all from bookcloseouts.com. Unfortunately the box arrived when hubby was home.
*looking ...
... since the other was one away from being 200!
These are the books I'd like to read:
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Oneprince by Bill Hand
Runaway Mistress by Robyn Carr
...
... is scribble a few impressions.
There are a lot of books that have made me sad, and a handful of them have made me cry: Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of them, and The Book Thief is another. Despite foreshadowing by the book's narrator, Death, I was a wreck by book's end.
Death as narrator. W ...
Finished reading New Moon started Uncle Tom's Cabin but stopped reading it because I received Eclipse in the mail
... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
3) The Federalist Papers
4) The Journals of Lewis and Clark
5) Walden
6) Uncle Tom's Cabin
7) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8) The Souls of Black Folk
9) The Promised Land- Mary Antin (Touchstones don't seem to like two books ...
... Conrad
4. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (Reading Globally)
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Reading Globally)
6. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (Group Reads - Literature)
7. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ...
... Charles Dickens, 1970's
29. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne, 1960's
30. Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1970's
31. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe , 1970's
32. Bleak House, Charles Dickens, 2009
33. Madame Bovary, Flaubert, 1970's reread 2000
34. Adam Bede, George Eliot, 2008
35. * ...
I knew this would happen! As soon as I say I will read X, I get sidetracked onto something else.
Instead of Uncle Tom's Cabin I ended up reading Vows of Silence as I was supposed to pass it on from someone to someone else. It's about abuse in the Catholic Church so I myself wondered why I ...
... Hunger by Knut Hamsun {6/21}
12. Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert {7/2}
13. Eve's Ransom by George Gissing {8/31}
14. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe {9/3}
15. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley {10/24}
16. Adieu by Honoré de Balzac {10/25}
17. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Ha ...
Skeletons at the Feast
Mudbound
American Wife
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sol's Story
... given that my total for 2008 so far is 21, but it will be good to keep track of what I read. My first one I think will be Uncle Tom's Cabin as I already have it borrowed from the library. After that, I might be at the start of a run on books about different parts of the US.
I'll enjoy ...
I've read Uncle Tom's Cabin ...many many many years ago
But I've never read The Book Theif
... trouble with it - lots of ideas, lots of words. But we had some interesting conversations nonetheless. I just picked up Uncle Tom's Cabin because it seems important that I do so.
60. Fluke by Christopher Moore (Moore bibliography list)
61. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (banned books list)
Fluke is great - another Moore masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin is yet another book that I can't believe I made it through high school, let alone ...
Classics - any
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. The Outsider - Albert Camus
3. A Room of Ones Own - Virginia Woolf - Read
4. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
5. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
6. Waldon; or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
7. Silent Spring ...
... it to horror fans.
I'm still working through:
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Just So Stories
Uncle Tom's Cabin
and I'll start Fluke later today, as part of my Christopher Moore bibliography reading list.
I'm currently reading:
World War Z (I'm reading this because my BFF told me I absolutely *had* to.)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (from my Banned Books reading list)
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (library book)
Confessor (my current audiobook)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...
75. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1001. This classic slipped by me in high school and I'm glad I finally read it so many years later. Sentimental, disjointed at times, nonetheless it paints a vivid picture of slavery and life during the 1850's.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
... do the people who are playing not read? Or have we finally exhausted all the books everyone's read from the list? Surely Uncle Tom's Cabin then?
Halfway through Uncle Tom's Cabin , which I found heavy for the first third or so but the pace has picked up and I'm well into it now. Also just finished A Modest Proposal or otherwise known as "What to Cook for Dinner Tonight, Dear". Wonderful if slightly revolting.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins
Wives Behaving Badly by Elizabeth Buchan
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I finished The Scarlet Letter this week and I'll be starting Uncle Tom's Cabin later today.
... the entire 19th century, reprinted many times. It is touted as the first American bestseller; it's reign ending when Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. Set during the Revolutionary War, it is a tale of the young, naive & virtuous Charlotte Temple who is seduced by a young British soldier ...
... started Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson purported to be America's first bestseller - the most read book here until Uncle Tom's Cabin arrived on the literary scene.
I've just added to my library a Polish version of Uncle Tom's Cabin - Chata Wuja Toma, ISBN 8310083106 - and I see that it is combined with the original English edition. The problem is that this Polish book is not a "normal" translation. Although the action, places, people and events are the same ...
... church included St. Paul running the race, keeping the faith. :)
But the one I remember most was while finally reading Uncle Tom's Cabin a couple years ago -- and being shocked to discover that Harriet Beecher Stowe was the innovator of terms like "un-(effing)-believable"!
Of course hers ...
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33. Crime and punishment - F. Dostojevski
34. Fathers and sons - Toergenjev
35. Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert
36. Uncle Tom's cabin - H. Beecher Stowe
37. Wuthering heights - E. Bronte
38. Candide - Voltaire
39. The golden ass - Lucius Apuleius
Edit: this is an update of ...
... with these:
The Slow Cooker Bible
The Stand
A Daughter's Daughter and Other Novels
The Origin of Species
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Arabian Nights
Anansi Boys
The Scarlet Letter
A Murder Is Announced
The A.B.C. Murders
Death on the Nil ...
... Joseph Conrad and Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
- 2nd Q: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
not worrying myself yet on choice for the remainder of the year...i've already got too much on my TBR pile as it is...
... and many of them I simply didn't like--by extension, I couldn't make myself care about them. If I hadn't recently read Uncle Tom's Cabin , I could hypothesize that it was the subject or the times that didn't connect, but it wasn't. Stowe's work was engaging, and her characters felt real, ...
... Julia Stewart
America 1900: The Turning Point by Judy Crichton
And the Reader's Digest hardcover 1991 print of Uncle Tom's Cabin
... texts at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page.''
Glad to hear someone else has done that. That's how I finally read Uncle Tom's Cabin for a course on the American Civil War.
... reason I like hardcovers is that they're easier to read -- the letters and lines seem less crowded.
When I finally read Uncle Tom's Cabin a few years ago, I picked a more expensive edition because of its more-readable font.
I've put aside several of Julia Cameron's books because their ...
... an actor. The book inspired me to get my Dad's high school copy of Go Tell It On The Mountain and to start searching for Uncle Tom's Cabin , neither of which is particularly easy to find here. Actually, maybe I should bump Go Tell... up my TBR list. I've had it for a while but I usually need ...
... by William Golding
3. (600) For whom the Bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. (711) The Trial by Franz Kafka
5. (893) Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. (843) Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
7. (621) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
8. (228) Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballar ...
... Got His Gun as research for yet another play and I am still part way through A Time of Gifts and the children's book Uncle about a wealthy excentric elephant in a purple dressing gown who fights of bad guys.
Is suge appearing and disappearing . . . AGAIN?
... of this I really dislike MMPB's. My First Edition Sinclair Lewis from the early 1920's or mt Harvard Press Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin are in great condition and very readable. I love hardbacks.
I try to collect signed First Edition/First Printings but I am on a budget so I will pick ...
... Man by Frank McCourt
E. General Nonfiction:
1. Unlocking the Torah Text by Shmuel Goldin
F. Classics
1. Uncle Tom'S Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
G. Lit. Journals/Anthologies/Collections
1. Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories edited by James Thomas, Denise Thomas ...
I have a stack of those, but I got recent encouragement. I finally got around to picking up Uncle Tom's Cabin (one I felt I should have read, but haven't, and finally got ready to wade through), and then I loved it. I've got a loose resolution to read at least three or four more books like that ...
... but it ended up being engaging and wonderfully written, not to mention thought-provoking. Close second would be Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin .
Uncle Tom's Cabin did, or so they say.
Review for Uncle Tom's Cabin posted.
I realized also I didn't really mention a goal before. I suppose I'll go with fifty--I don't read as much as I used to now that I teach fulltime, but considering how much I read in the summer, it's probably possible. If there's a hitch, it'll be if I end ...
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Back in high school, I got it in my head that this was one of those classics I had to read some day, but I only picked it up when I started studying for the GRE Subject Test. I didn't get to read much of it then since I was trying to skim and ...
...
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
Letters from Pemberley by Jane Dawkins
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Borrowed from library:
My Favorite Midlife crisis (yet) by Toby Devens
Bridget Jones's ...
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Plum Bun
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Vanity Fair
Balzac and the Human Comedy by Philippe Bertault
and Uncle Tom's Cabin .
Yesterday, I bought
Crabbe's English Synonymes
and a truly divine, antique, crumbling copy of Hyperion and Outre Mer.
I'm set for the week, ...
... target="_blank">blog post where I'd confessed to books I'm hesitant to carry: Uncle Tom's Cabin (inflammatory), The DaVinci Code (pedestrian), and anything lately by Mary Higgins Clark (simplistic).
LT's diversity of books and opinions makes ...
... is like apples and oranges.
When I was driving to work, I definitely listened to books from the list on audiobook (Uncle Tom's Cabin was one, and I think I got more meaning and enjoyment (such as it was) out of that book than I ever would have reading it)). Now that I'm on a train, I ...
... ssay)
The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner
Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper (essay)
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich, One Woman's Story, Hiltgunt Zassenhaus (me ...
... to get into books that take a problem-focus on aspects of life that are just gone and forgotten, like Scarlet Letter or Uncle Tom or Les Miserables. A few of them are good reads (none of those just mentioned) but they are hard work to get through. (As academics in the humanities, the Fogies ...
... Jean Baker Miller
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly , Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
... know the work, but oddly, in looking for it, apparently a lot of people have written about parallels/related themes between Uncle Tom's Cabin and _Black Beauty_ (won't let me touchstone). I'm not sure I wanna think about this any further. My brain hurts.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was the daughter of the famous New England clergyman & writer Henry Ward Beecher He wrote a great deal about the evils of slavery & was a leader in the abolitionist movement. Harriet grew up in this atmosphere but it wasn't until she & her husband moved to Cincinnati & ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe was African-American? I don't think so . . . even if she did write Uncle Tom's Cabin .
Alice Walker
Zora Neal Hurston
August Wilson
Ralph Ellison--The Invisible Man
Leroi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka
Edward P. Jones
Ernest J. Gaines--A L ...
... public library: why do we keep Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf on the open shelves? Other books are also queried, such as Uncle Tom's Cabin , so that you could, if the librarian gave in to the demands for removal or a 'reserved' status, end up, as my predecessor did, with an office full of ...
... said was worse.
I fully agree with all those who nominated The Scarlet Letter.
One I haven't seen on this list is Uncle Tom's Cabin . Now of course it's historically significant, but the writing is terrible!! It's melodramatic, trite, and felt sooooo long. It must be at least 30,000 ...
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Children of the Corn by Fritz Kiersch
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Bishop
Uncle Vanya by Chekhov
... Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
13. A Gap In Nature by Tim Flannery
14. The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
15. Uncle Petos And Golbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
16. Accelerando by Charles Stross
17. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
18. End Of An Era by Robert J. Sawy ...
I found Uncle Tom's Cabin on audio, read by Buck Shirmer, and while it seems like perhaps an odd choice for audio, Mr. Shirmer reads it beautifully, and the particularly preachy sections seem to go by faster in audio than trying to read it.
I listened to a very well-read version of Animal Farm ...
The Good Husband by Gail Godwin
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series
Husband Coached Childbirth by Dr. Bradley (which we did 20-some years ago)
RE the Alaska reindeer cookbook: I have the Alaska Magazine Cabin Cookbook which has "over 150 favorite North Country recipes that tell how to cook with wild game, fish, fowl and native plants." There are recipes for reindeer, walrus, moose (moose noodle soup, mooseburger lasagna and moose ...
... ?
Yes, exactly. When something is banned from a school library, the faculty of a school are saying: "Harry Potter or Uncle Tom's Cabin or James Joyce's Ulysses or Call of the Wild or The Bible are somehow dangerous and are not going to be available to students on this campus."
So, ...
... that written by black authors. Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks counts; Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" doesn't. Uncle Tom's cabin doesn't belong either.
Although I mentioned my initial, foreigner's surprise and personal dislike of the race/sexual orientation separations in North Am ...
... pious, weakly character who always feels like a sacrificial lamb. Helen, in Jane Eyre is one of these and so is Eva from Uncle Tom's Cabin . I'm sure this must have been a staple archetype for Victorian literature, but it does get old after you read a few of them.
Recommended? Yes.
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... wonderful play to start with is uncle vanya. there is an english film of it, and an american play within a play called uncle vanya of 42nd st . I also like ivanov a lot; I saw a great production of it at the brooklyn academy of music a few years back. My personal favorite is still the ...
... Finn, Around the World in 80 Days, The Tell-Tale Heart, something by Guy de Maupassant, Moby Dick, and Uncle Tom's Cabin . We did a large unit on poetry at some point, but I hate poetry and don't remember any of it except the chapter on Sylvia Plath and a bit of Hemingw ...
... is "insensitive" and might lead us to blunder into racist or sexist misinterpretations of the "real" people.
Lookit Uncle Tom's Cabin , for instance. It was the first literary encounter white Northerners had with slaves, and it galvanized the emancipation movement.
A hundred years ...
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