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Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book," Uncle Tom's Cabin". But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success. (78) The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.
But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England. For a while it outsold (销得比…多) every book in the world, except the Bible.
Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America' s most popular play for 80 years.
(79) It might appear that" Uncle Tom' s Cabin" was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War days—particularly defenders of the slavery system-condemned it as false propaganda and poorly written melodrama(传奇剧作品).
Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied," God wrote it."), and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so per haps the book could be considered propaganda. But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described the evils of slavery.
Though she was born in Connecticut, 1832, as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary(神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action. She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college. In 1851, Harriet Beeeher Stowe began her book.
Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system. Today some historians(历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American Civil War.
In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said, "So, this is the little lady who started this big war."
Before the publication of the book "Uncle Tom' s Cabin"
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"Equal pay for equal work" is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.
Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women working at ail. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. (80) If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up children.
Women who disagree say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between work and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the fight not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.
The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to ask society to ______.
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Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, ff not more expensive
I am very interested in people, in meeting them and【C7】______about them. Some of the most【C8】______people I've met existed only in a writer's imagination, then【C9】______the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I've found in books new friends, new societies, new worlds.
If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who【C10】______in how. Who in the books includes【C11】______from sciencefiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first【C12】______in history; how【C13】______everything from the ingenious(巧妙的)explanations of Sherlock Folmes【C14】______the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children.
Reading can make our minds feel pleased,【C15】______means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness【C16】______you a good reader. Reading is【C17】______, not because the writer is telling you something,【C18】______because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the【C19】______or even goes beyond his. Your experience,【C20】______his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
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