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Two boys bored of provincial life ask storyteller Sam Lawson to spin them some yarns. In "The Ghost in the Mill," Cap'n Eb Sawin gets stuck in a heavy snowstorm. In desperate need of shelter, he heads for the nearby mill to spend a strange night with old Cack.
Oldtown Fireside Stories is a children's story collection by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A propos de l'auteur
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist. Born into the influential Beecher family, a mainstay of New England progressive political life, Stowe was raised in a devoutly Calvinist household. Educated in the Classics at the Hartford Female Seminary, Stowe moved to Cincinnati in 1832 to join her recently relocated family. There, she participated in literary and abolitionist societies while witnessing the prejudice and violence faced by the city's African American population, many of whom had fled north as escaped slaves. Living in Brunswick, Maine with her husband and children, Stowe supported the Underground Railroad while criticizing the recently passed Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The following year, the first installment of
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in
The National Era, a prominent abolitionist newspaper. Published in book form in 1852,
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an immediate international success, serving as a crucial catalyst for the spread of abolitionist sentiment around the United States in the leadup to the Civil War. She spent the rest of her life between Florida and Connecticut working as a writer, editor, and activist for married women's rights.
