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Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner 1942 (Vivid tales from the deeply rooted McCaslin family of Mississippi explore the human desire to dominate others.) Faulkner raises a novel, especially Go Down, Moses, like a mountain range. A small peak here, another one some indefinite distance to the side but nearer to the viewer, another apparently between them but actually much […]
July’s People
Nadine Gordimer 1981 (A white South African family in danger of racial violence flees to a village under the protection of their black servant.) You like to have some cup of tea?— She runs. This is the novel. Rather, between these two lines lies the novel, and these two (the first and last lines) are […]
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
December 28, 2014 / Leave a comment
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 (Two slaves struggle mightily: one for her liberty, the other for his integrity.) This novel, the best selling book in the nineteenth century besides the Bible, is a remarkably forceful argument against the world’s most blatant form of widespread institutionalized violation of human rights. It is a collage of slave lives and […]
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