Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Paperback

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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Paperback

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Paperback

by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author)

Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their masters.
Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted; Eliza and her husband, George, who elude slave catchers and eventually flee a country that condones slavery; Simon Legree, a brutal plantation owner; Little Eva, who suffers emotionally and physically from the suffering of slaves; and fun-loving Topsy, Eva's slave playmate.
Critics, scholars, and students are today revisiting this monumental work with a new objectivity, focusing on Stowe's compelling portrayal of women and the novel's theological underpinnings.

Number of Pages: 384
Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: August 01, 2005
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 9.3
Point Value: 32
ISBN9780486440286
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe
PublisherDover Publications
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages384
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe (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 African-American 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. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially from 1851 to 1852 in The National Era and as a book in 1852. More than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold in one year. Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.

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