Uncle Tom's hut. Beche-Stou G.

many sources of varying degrees of reliability claim that once, when meeting with the author of the “Uncle Tom’s hut,” Abraham Lincoln allegedly said the phrase: “This little lady began a great war.” The novel of the American writer Harriet Beche-Stow (1811-1896) very quickly gained worldwide fame and recognition. Written in the characteristic of the nineteenth century by the sentimental style of “Female Prose”, this book, nevertheless, made a grandiose coup in public mood, winning an important place not only in the history of literature, but simply in history, since the most noble reason for the civil war between the civil war The struggle for the abolition of slavery was the north and south. And in this struggle the book of a little woman made an invaluable contribution.