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Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book, Uncle
Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book, Uncle
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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. 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.
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 perhaps 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 Beecher 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. " [br] The writer wrote the passage in order to______.
选项
A、expose the evils of the slavery system
B、condemn all kinds of war
C、describe people’ s life in Harriet’ s time
D、tell us how Harriet wrote her famous book
答案
D
解析
主旨题。选项A(揭露奴隶制的罪恶)与文章内容不符,文中并没有用大量篇幅描述奴隶制的罪恶。选项B(谴责一切战争)和选项C(描述了在哈丽叶特时期人们的生活)文中没有提及。选项D(告诉我们哈丽叶特是怎样写出这本书的)符合文意,因为文中大量篇幅都是关于这本书及作者哈丽叶特的创作过程,故本题选D。
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