Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. A tale of greed, betrayal, and rebellion, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp displays her impressive imaginative range and admirable moral outlook while illuminating aspects of early American...

Oldtown Fireside Stories (1872) is a collection of children's stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. These stories capture her imaginative range and moral outlook while illuminating aspects of American life that would otherwise be consigned to history. Two boys bored of provincial life ask...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Queer Little Folks" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Published in 1868, this collection of biographical narratives of "Leading Patriots of the Day" includes chapters on Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others.

The heroine of this 1862 historical novel is Agnes, a country girl living amidst the spiritual tranquility of an Italian convent. With her hand sought by a cast-out Italian prince, she is torn between the prospect of love and her sense of duty to the charismatic monk Savonarola, the instigator of the original and actual fifteenth-century "Bonfire of the Vanities."

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands is a two-volume travel sketch of Harriet Beecher Stowe, written during her visit to Europe, in which she denotes her impressions from England, Scotland, France, Germany and few other countries. The book contains her diary entries and letters addressed to her children, her father and some other family members in which she chronicles her journey and exposes her impressions.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...

Mary Scudder and her mother live a modest life in a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Their boarder is a famous Calvinist theologian who preaches against slavery. Torn between her Calvinist upbringing and her love for the skeptic James Marvyn, Mary is forced to make a decision about her future when Marvyn is reportedly lost at sea.

Here are collected three of Beecher's most treasured short stories. In "Betty's Bright Idea," a sweet young girl forms a bond with a poor family and is determined to help them make a better life for themselves. In "Deacon Pitkin's farm," a young boy whose family can no longer afford payments on their house chooses to forego schooling in order to help make money for his struggling kin. Lastly, "The First Christmas in New England" documents the first...

Christmas is the setting of this 1876 short, heartwarming novel for children by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Young Elsie, aided and abetted by unseen "Shining Ones," conspires to earn forgiveness, charity, and redemption for John Morley, the family gardener dismissed for drinking, and his poverty-stricken family.