Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Influential Novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Spoiler alerts here. About five or six weeks ago, continuing in my favorite field, literature, I finished reading Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Here are some reactions: First, it is a deeply religious novel. She was the daughter of a...Reckoning: Race War Comes To America
I have long feared the US will be pushed into the horrors of race war. For more than ten years, I have worked on a novel dramatizing the grim theme of color-blind individualism versus racism. It is done. Its title is “Reckoning.” I have found a publisher,...
Great novels I’m Re-Reading: Bronte & Hemingway
Thinking about the great novels I’m re-reading. Over the past few months, I have re-read and savored many classic novels—“The Scarlet Letter,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “The Old Man And The Sea”, “1984,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” and others. One of those others knocked me...
Praise Comments for “Heroes, Legends, Champions: Why Heroism Matters”
Aristotle, Montessori, Carver, Cyrano, Earhart, Shackleton, Shane, and many more. Bernstein passionately demonstrates how heroes exert every ounce of their intellectual, physical, and moral strength to surmount obstacles as they tirelessly promote human life. The...
Read an excerpt from A Dearth of Eagles
Click here to read an excerpt from A Dearth of Eagles over at The New Romanticist. A Dearth of Eagles is about a Bulgarian emigre in NYC in 1988, a writer, who simultaneously battles the Bulgarian secret police to smuggle dissidents to freedom from behind the Iron...Support Andrew Bernstein on Patreon!
