Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Library of America Paperback Classic
$25.99
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2010
Summary
“The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.” -Alfred Kazin
When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he greeted her as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” He was exaggerating only slightly. First published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year and brought home the evils of slavery more dramatically than any abolitionist tract possibly could. With its boldly draw…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598530865 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598530860 |
| Author: | Harriet Beecher Stowe, James M. McPherson |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 556g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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About The Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher. In 1832, her family moved to Cincinnati, where she married Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. As a resident of the border town, Stowe became involved in the abolitionist movement, encountering fugitive slaves and learning about the realities of slavery in the South.
Following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, Stowe was urged by her sister-in-law to write about her feelings on the evils of slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published serially in The National Era during 1851-1852 and in book form in 1852. The novel sold over 300,000 copies in its first year. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of eighty-five.
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis ‘86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has authored numerous books on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom, For Cause and Comrades—Why Men Fought in the Civil War, and most recently, Abraham Lincoln.
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