Uncle Toms Cabin - Softcover

Harriett Beecher Stowe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671416650 ISBN 13: 9780671416652

Publisher: Pocket, 1980

Synopsis

Publisher: Pocket (July 3, 1980) Language: English Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel, this story caused a sensation when it was published. It shocked the nation into angry debate - a nation moving relentlessly toward the bloodshed of the Civil War. A story about slavery and introduces one of the most hateful characters in all fiction - Simon Legree. It portrays Eliza, risking death to win freedom for her child and for herself. It tells of Uncle Tom, a gentle man whose courage sustained him through terrible suffering - only to meet death on the threshold of freedom.

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Library of Liberal Arts title.

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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: Pocket
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0671416650
• ISBN 13: 9780671416652
• Binding: Paperback