书名：Uncle Tom's Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋

作者：Harriet Beecher Stowe
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1983

语种：英语
ISBN：9780553212181
商品尺寸：10.67 x 2.29 x 17.48 cm
包装：平装
页数：544（以实物为准）

Uncle Tom’s Cabin《汤姆叔叔的小屋》又译作《黑奴吁天录》、《汤姆大伯的小屋》，是美国作家哈里特·比彻·斯托（斯托夫人）于1852年发表的一部反奴隶制长篇小说。在它发表的头一年里，在美国本土便销售出了三十万册。这部小说采用穿插轮叙的方式，沿着两条平行线索描述了两个黑奴不同的遭遇，塑造了忠诚友善但逆来顺受的汤姆和勇于抗争的伊拉莎夫妇等典型形象，并通过人物和场景描绘显示了一个时期的美国社会生活面貌。书中关于非裔美国人与美国奴隶制度的观点曾产生过意义深远的影响，并在某种程度上激化了导致美国内战的地区局部冲突。当林肯接见斯托夫人时，曾说到：“你就是那位引发了一场大战的小妇人。”后来，这句话为众多作家竞相引用。

《汤姆叔叔的小屋》以及受其启发而写作出的各种剧本，还促进了大量黑人刻板印象的产生，这些形象在当今都为人们所熟知。譬如慈爱善良的黑人保姆、黑小孩的原型、以及顺从、坚忍并忠心于白人主人的汤姆叔叔。

"Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery."--Alfred Kazin

黑奴汤姆叔叔信奉基督教，逆来顺受，并不愿反抗奴隶制，后来惨死在奴隶主雷格里的手下。而他的朋友，黑奴伊莉莎和她的丈夫哈里斯，从一开始就具有反抗精神。为了不让自己的儿子被卖掉，伊莉莎带着儿子逃跑了，终于，在废奴组织的帮助下，他们逃到了加拿大。

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is mainly about a slave struggling to maintain his dignity during the pre-Civil War era. The author featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

哈丽叶特·比切·斯托，美国作家，知名小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的作者。南北战争，即黑奴解放战争，是在19世纪60年代进行的。但从19世纪20年代起，废奴制问题就成为美国进步舆论的中心议题。当时许多有名的美国作家都站在废奴的一边，为解放黑奴而呼吁。斯托夫人便是这批废奴作家中颇为杰出的一位。《汤姆叔叔的小屋》激励了一代人的“废奴运动”，也把内战搬上了历史舞台，被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物第41名。

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836.  The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict, and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the African-American in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet's sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially from 1851 to 1852 in The National Era and as a book in 1852.  More than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold in one year.  Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.