Uncle Tom's Cabin (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743487664 ISBN 13: 9780743487665

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2004

Synopsis

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Harriet Beecher Stowe's scathing indictment of slavery in the Old South, a novel that has become a landmark of American literature.

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· A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
· A chronology of the author's life and work
· A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
· An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
· Detailed explanatory notes
· Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
· Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
· A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

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SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON

About this title

From the Publisher:

Library of Liberal Arts title.

From the Inside Flap:

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 passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward "the peculiar institution" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the river." An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.
From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743487664
• ISBN 13: 9780743487665
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 608