Uncle Tom's Cabin - (Penguin American Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The classic tale that awakened a nation a nation about life under the slave system.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The novel that changed the course of American history</b> <p/>Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> has remained controversial to this day, seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans, yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery and remains one of the most important American novels ever written. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery."<br>--Alfred Kazin<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836. The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves, and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the Negro in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet's sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> was first published serially during 1851-52 in The National Era, and in book form in 1852. In one year more than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold. Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut. <p/><b>Ann Douglas</b> teaches English at Columbia University. Her books include <i>Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s</i> and <i>The Feminization of American Culture</i>.
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