Uncle Tom's Cabin (Everyman Library) - Softcover

Stowe, Professor Harriet Beecher; Stowe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460871390 ISBN 13: 9780460871396

Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics, 1993

Synopsis

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) proved popular from the start, selling 300,000 copies in its first year. Stowe's characters, which merited sympathy for the abolitionist cause and inflamed pre-Civil War tension, remain as specters in the American literary and political imagination. Frederick Douglass' autobiographical writings, which became central to the earliest American civil rights struggles, complement this brilliant propaganda piece.

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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 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: Everyman Paperback Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0460871390
• ISBN 13: 9780460871396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 594
• Editor: Bigsby C W E