Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Overview: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North. It angered and embittered the South. The impact is summed up in a commonly quoted statement apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you’re the little woman that started this great war!"
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics
Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly (1852) (Illustrated) (PDF)
Arranged for Young Readers
—With Ninety Illustrations
No apology is necessary for placing a carefully-prepared edition of " Uncle Tom’s Cabin " in the hands of the young people of America. The wonderful story, with its striking characters, wealth of incident, and lofty tone of benevolence and humanity, is as full of fascination to-day as in the times for which it was written. All the old friends are here Uncle Tom and Eva, Topsy and Miss Ophelia, St. Clare and George Harris, Legree and Tom Loker. Eliza’s escape over the floating ice with her child, the slave hunt in the swamp, the heroic stand of the fugitives and their Quaker friends, the horrors of the slave market all the incidents that the author has set in such effective contrast are here to delight and instruct. " Uncle Tom’s Cabin " has been translated into almost all the civilized languages of the world, and into some as yet only half civilized ; yet it has never been in greater demand than at the present time.
Of it the poet Longfellow wrote:
"It is one of the greatest triumphs recorded in literary history, to say nothing of the higher triumph of its moral effect."
The author’s own words were:
"I could not control the story ; it wrote itself I"
Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly (A Modern Library E-Book) (Retail)
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature ‘flowing from love of God and man.’
Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s stirring indictment of slavery if often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic simplifications of character totally alien to the original. Thus ‘Uncle Tom’ has become a pejorative term for a subservient black, whereas Uncle Tom in the book is a man who, under the most inhumane of circumstances, never loses his human dignity.’Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the most powerful and most enduring work of art ever written about American slavery,’ said Alfred Kazin.
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About the Book
About the Author
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