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《汤姆叔叔的小屋(英文版)》:Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P-in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness.For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thickset man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension, which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world作者简介：Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S. and Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North. It angered and embittered the South. The impact is summed up in a commonly quoted statement apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"

汤姆叔叔的小屋(英文版) 作者简介

斯托夫人（1811－1896），美国作家，生于康涅狄格州的牧师家庭，后迁至与南方蓄奴州只有一河之隔的辛辛那提，耳闻目睹了许多黑人遭难种植园主残酷剥削的故事，并全家参与到协助黑人逃亡的工作中。后在姐夫的鼓励下，写出一部控诉黑人血泪的小说，这就是《汤姆叔叔的小屋》。此书对当时的废奴运动产生巨大的推动作用，并直接导致南北战争的爆发。据说，林肯总统曾称斯托夫人为“写了一本小书，却酿成了一场大战的女人”。
斯托夫人的另一个成就是描写新英格兰风情的小说，如《奥尔岛上的明珠》、《老镇上的人们》等。
《汤姆叔叔的小屋》在1901年即由林纾译成汉语，书名为《黑奴吁天录》，在现代文学史上产生重要影响，至今仍是广大青少年读者最喜爱的外国小说之一。

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