Uncle Tom's cabin / Хижина дяди Тома. Книга для чтения на английском языке

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Гарриет Бичер-Стоу. Uncle Tom's cabin / Хижина дяди Тома. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Preface

I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity

II. The Mother

III. The Husband and Father

IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners

VI. Discovery

VII. The Mother’s Struggle

VIII. Eliza’s Escape

IX. In Which It Appears that a Senator Is but a Man

X. The Property Is Carried Off

XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind

XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade

XIII. The Quaker[55] Settlement

XIV. Evangeline

XV. Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters

XVI. Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions

XVII. The Freeman’s Defence

XVIII. Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions

XIX. Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions, Continued

XX. Topsy

XXI. Kentuck

XXII “The Grass Withereth – The Flower Fadeth”

XXIII. Henrique

XXIV. Foreshadowings

XXV. The Little Evangelist

XXVI. Death

XXVII “This is the Last of Earth.”

XXVIII. Reunion

XXIX. The Unprotected

XXX. The Slave Warehouse

XXXI. The Middle Passage

XXXII. Dark Places

XXXIII. Cassy

XXXIV. The Quadroon’s Story

XXXV. The Tokens

XXXVI. Emmeline and Cassy

XXXVII. Liberty

XXXVIII. The Victory

XXXIX. The Stratagem

XL. The Martyr

XLI. The Young Master

XLII. An Authentic Ghost Story

XLIII. Results

XLIV. The Liberator

XLV. Concluding Remarks

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Отрывок из книги

The scenes of this story, as its title indicates, lie among a race hitherto ignored by the associations of polite and refined society; an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, brought with them, and perpetuated to their descendants, a character so essentially unlike the hard and dominant Anglo-Saxon race, as for many years to have won from it only misunderstanding and contempt.

But, another and better day is dawning; every influence of literature, of poetry and of art, in our times, is becoming more and more in unison with the great master chord of Christianity, ‘good will to man.’

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“Why, Eliza, child! what ails you?” said her mistress.

“O! missis, missis,” said Eliza, “there’s been a trader talking with master in the parlor! I heard him.”

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