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Mint Editions (Women Writers)

A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

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Mint Editions (Women Writers)

A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

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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 life that would otherwise be consigned to history. Nina Gordon is a young heiress who senses a change in southern plantation culture. Living in her family's estate, she sees their land losing value through her brother's drunkenness and aversion to work. Entrusting the plantation to Harry, one of their slaves, she attempts to maintain some normalcy by accepting suitors. She soon falls for Clayton, an idealistic young man who accepts the need for social change and disdains her brother's cruel mistreatment of Harry. Outside of the estate, the Gordon family's slaves live in fear of the state's brutal slave laws alongside a family of poor whites. Despite the culture of silence holding them in place, they hear of a preacher named Dred, a maroon who leads a group of escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. Is he a symbol of hope, or merely an illusion made up by greedy slavecatchers looking to collect bounties? As life on the Gordon plantation becomes more and more unbearable, the prospect of freedom seems worthy of any great risk. Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is an underappreciated masterpiece from the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most influential American novel of the nineteenth century. This edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is a classic of American children's literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Publisher
Mint Editions
Year
2021
ISBN
9781513287591
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Classici

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. I. The Mistress of Canema
  7. II. Clayton
  8. III. The Clayton Family and Sister Anne
  9. IV. The Gordon Family
  10. V. Harry and His Wife
  11. VI. The Dilemma
  12. VII. Consultation
  13. VIII. Old Tiff
  14. IX. The Death
  15. X. The Preparation
  16. XI. The Lovers
  17. XII. Explanations
  18. XIII. Tom Gordon
  19. XIV. Aunt Nesbit’s Loss
  20. XV. Mr. Jekyl’s Opinions
  21. XVI. Milly’s Story
  22. XVII. Uncle John
  23. XVIII. Dred
  24. XIX. The Conspirators
  25. XX. Summer Talk at Canema
  26. XXI. Tiff’s Preparations
  27. XXII. The Worshippers
  28. XXIII. The Camp-Meeting
  29. XXIV. Life in the Swamps
  30. XXV. More Summer Talk
  31. XXVI. Milly’s Return
  32. XXVII. The Trial
  33. XXVIII. Magnolia Grove
  34. XXIX. The Troubadour
  35. XXX. Tiff’s Garden
  36. XXXI. The Warning
  37. XXXII. The Morning Star
  38. XXXIII. The Legal Decision
  39. XXXIV. The Cloud Bursts
  40. XXXV. The Voice in the Wilderness
  41. XXXVI. The Evening Star
  42. XXXVII. The Tie Breaks
  43. XXXVIII. The Purpose
  44. XXXIX. The New Mother
  45. XL. The Flight Into Egypt
  46. XLI. The Clerical Conference
  47. XLII. The Result
  48. XLIII. The Slave’s Argument
  49. XLIV. The Desert
  50. XLV. Jegar Sahadutha
  51. XLVI. Frank Russel’s Opinions
  52. XLVII. Tom Gordon’s Plans
  53. XLVIII. Lynch Law
  54. XLIX. More Violence
  55. L. Engedi
  56. LI. The Slave Hunt
  57. LII. “All Over”
  58. LIII. The Burial
  59. LIV. The Escape
  60. LV. Lynch Law Again
  61. LVI. Flight
  62. LVII. Clear Shining After Rain
  63. Appendix I. Nat Turner’s Confessions
  64. Appendix II.
  65. Appendix III. Church Action on Slavery
  66. A Note About the Author
  67. A Note from the Publisher