Uncle Tom's Cabin (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Harriet Beech Stowe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857152069 ISBN 13: 9781857152067

Publisher: Random House, 1995

Synopsis

Originally published in 1851, this didactic and sentimental drama is set among the slaves of the American South. The novel made a major contribution to the emancipation of the slaves and became world-famous.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857152069
• ISBN 13: 9781857152067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 560