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!"
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。
CHAPTER 1 IN WHICH THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO A MAN OF HUMANITY
CHAPTER 2 THE MOTHER
CHAPTER 3 THE HUSBAND AND FATHER
CHAPTER 4 AN EVENING IN UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
CHAPTER 5 SHOWING THE FEELINGS OF LIVING PROPERTY ON CHANGING OWNERS
CHAPTER 6 DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 7 THE MOTHER'S STRUGGLE
CHAPTER 8 ELIZA'S ESCAPE
CHAPTER 9 IN WHICH IT APPEARS THAT A SENATOR IS BUT A MAN
CHAPTER 10 THE PROPERTY IS CARRIED OFF
CHAPTER 11 IN WHICH PROPERTY GETS INTO AN IMPROPER STATE OF MIND
CHAPTER 12 SELECT INCIDENT OF LAWFUL TRADE
CHAPTER 13 THE QUAKER SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER 14 EVANGELINE
CHAPTER 15 OF TOM'S NEW MASTER, AND VARIOUS OTHER MATTERS
CHAPTER 16 TOM'S MISTRESS AND HER OPINIONS
CHAPTER 17 THE FREEMAN'S DEFENCE
CHAPTER 18 MISS OPHELIA'S EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS
CHAPTER 19 MISS OPHELIA'S EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS CONTINUED
CHAPTER 20 TOPSY
CHAPTER 21 KENTUCK
CHAPTER 22 "THE GRASS WITHERETH——THE FLOWER FADETH"
CHAPTER 23 HENRIQUE
CHAPTER 24 FORESHADOWINGS
CHAPTER 25 THE LITTLE EVANGELIST
CHAPTER 26 DEATH
CHAPTER 27 "THIS IS THE LAST OF EARTH
CHAPTER 28 REUNION
CHAPTER 29 THE UNPROTECTED
CHAPTER 30 THE SLAVE WAREHOUSE
CHAPTER 31 THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
CHAPTER 32 DARK PLACES
CHAPTER 33 CASSY
CHAPTER 34 THE QUADROON'S STORY
CHAPTER 35 THE TOKENS
CHAPTER 36 EMMELINE AND CASSY
CHAPTER 37 LIBERTY
CHAPTER 38 THE VICTORY
CHAPTER 39 THE STRATAGEM
CHAPTER 40 THE MARTYR
CHAPTER 41 THE YOUNG MASTER
CHAPTER 42 AN AUTHENTIC GHOST STORY
CHAPTER 43 RESULTS
CHAPTER 44 THE LIBERATOR
CHAPTER 45 CONCLUDING REMARKS
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ATE IN THE AFTERNOON OF a chilly day inFebruary, two gentlemen were sitting alone overtheir wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor,in the town in Kentucky. There were no servantspresent, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching,seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, twogentlemen. One of the parties, however, when criticallyexamined, did not seem; strictly speaking, to come underthe species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse,commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretensionwhich marks a low man who is trying to elbow his wayupward in the world. He was much overdressed, in a gaudyvest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gaylywith yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite inkeeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large andcoarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore aheavy gold watchchain, with a bundle of seals of portentoussize, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,——which, inthe ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishingand jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversationwas in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, andwas garnished at convenient intervals with various profaneexpressions.
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