Twelve Years a Slave
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2012
Abbildungen
8 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
Herausgeber
Henry Louis GatesVerlag
Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
19,5/13/2,2 cm
Gewicht
236 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-14-310670-8
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Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Ein unglaubliches Buch. Solomon Northup schrieb direkt nach seiner Gefangenschaft dieses Buch um auf die Umstände aufmerksam zu machen. Wie er es schafft zum Teil Verständnis für seine Peiniger aufzubringen blieb mir ein Rätsel; doch ist er ein sehr gläubiger Mensch, er sich seinen Glauben trotz allem erhalten hat.
Ich erstehe recht gut englisch, doch da es im Stil des 19 Jahrhunderts geschrieben wurde, war es stellenweise schon recht anstrengend. Und leider habe ich die Erläuterungen im Anhang erst am Ende des Buches entdeckt.
Meiner Meinung nach (mal wieder) ein Buch, das zur Schullektüre werden sollte!
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