Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatise...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. One thing is certain, that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later. Viewed by many as fuelling the abo...

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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passion...

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The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties. This edition fi...

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?One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.?Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War,...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.'Viewed by many as fuelling t...

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In a nation divided on the slavery question, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had the profound effect of defining and calling dramatic attention to the issues involved. Though a century had passed since the novel's first publication, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is cur...

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Beecher Stowes vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America. When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation o...

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`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!' These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Sto...

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A faithful reproduction of the hard-to-find "Splendid Edition" of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic American novel, this version features all of the 117 illustrations drawn by Hammatt Billings and a detailed introduction by prize-winning historian D...

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In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, an instant classic acclaimed by Northerners and other abolitionist readers but Southerners, - slave owners - attacked the book's accuracy. The following year Stowe ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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A devoutly Christian slave becomes separated from his wife and family when he is sold to the brutal planter, Simon Legree.

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Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beec...

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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons's preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Twenty-two illustrations. A rich selection of historical documents on slavery and ab...

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Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of Uncle Toms Cabin features the text of the 1852 edition, including original woodcut illustrations. An introduction by Susan M. Ryan takes a lively and incisive look at the novels histo...

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In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and comp...

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By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, this timeless and moving novel inflamed the passions and prejudices of thousands, fanning the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War. Revised reissue.

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Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel, which fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852, is now available in this specially priced Thrift Edition.

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In 1852 Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin was acclaimed by Northerners and condemned by Southerners. The following year she produced this defense, which cites real-life equivalents to her characters.

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This 1852 novel provides a powerful, historical look at the treatment of slaves in the pre-Civil War South.

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Easily the most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, Uncle Toms Cabin is often credited with intensifying the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War. In h...

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An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature 'flowing from love of God and man.'...

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One of the bestselling books of all time, the heart-wrenching story of Eliza Harris and Uncle Tom, published in 1852, exposed the horrors of slavery and helped bring about the Civil War.

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Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle col...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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