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Title: The unreadable classic- or Greatness of Influence vs. Literary quality
Review: When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe he reportedly said, "This is the little woman who made the great war". The tremendous influence of this book on Anti-Slavery attitudes are considered to be a very real factor in leading to atmosphere which helped bring about the Civil War. This work is thus in terms of its 'real effect' in the 'real world ' far more important than 'Moby Dick' or " Leaves of Grass' or 'The Scarlet Letter ' or 'Walden', the greatest books of the American Renaissance.The literary quality of the book is in no proportion to the Influence which it had.I have found it an almost impossible read, in good part because of its language.
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