Quote by Lance T. Stewart Download Open image ““Uncle Tom’s Cabin in serial form in newspapers, beginning in June of 1851.”” — Lance T. Stewart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application and made… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
“Back in the UK it was four-thirty on a Sunday afternoon and she wondered what Tom was doing, then grimaced as she pictured him pottering around the house in his jogging bottoms and t-shirt. He would no doubt have called her closest friends, all innocence, asking if they knew where she was. How long would it take him to work… — Gill Paul Copy Share
“I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As Tom wandered back to Mrs Mewett’s, he thought about the little relics at the lighthouse – Docherty’s knitting, his wife’s jar of humbugs that sat untouched in the pantry. Lives gone, traces left. And he wondered about the despair of the man, destroyed by grief. It didn’t take a war to push you over that edge.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share
“Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent. In the… — Lance T. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the issue of whether Kansas would be admitted to the union as a slave or free state was to be decided by popular… — Lance T. Stewart Copy Share Image
“its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination… — Lance T. Stewart Copy Share Image
