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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of …

This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped to solidify the anti-slavery sentiments of the North, and it remains today as the book that helped move a nation to civil war.

"So this is the little lady who made this big war." Abraham Lincoln's legendary comment upon meeting Mrs. Stowe has been seriously questioned, but few will deny that this work fed the passions and prejudices of countless numbers. If it did not "make" the Civil Warm, it flamed the embers. That Uncle Tom's Cabin is far more than an outdated work of propaganda confounds literary criticism. The novel's overwhelming power and persuasion have outlived even the most severe of critics. As Professor John William Ward of Amherst College points out in his incisive Afterword, the dilemma posed by Mrs. Stowe is no less relevant today than it was in 1852: What is it to be "a moral human being"? Can such a person live in society -- any society? Commenting on the timeless significance of the book, Professor Ward writes: "Uncle Tom's Cabin is about slavery, but it is about slavery because the fatal weakness of the slave's condition is the extreme manifestation of the sickness of the general society, a society breaking up into discrete, atomistic individuals where human beings, white or black, can find no secure relation one with another. Mrs. Stowe was more radical than even those in the South who hated her could see. Uncle Tom's Cabin suggests no less than the simple and terrible possibility that society has no place in it for love." - Back cover.

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LibraryThing key:: 18362
BNF ID:: 120080111

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Onkel Toms Hütte (Hardcover, German language, 2001, Arena)

Onkel Toms Hütte

Hardcover, 221 pages

German, Deutsch language

Published Dec. 26, 2001 by Arena.

ISBN:: 978-3-401-04473-6
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Goodreads:: 22698668

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Onkel Toms Hütte (Hardcover, German language, 2001, Arena)

Onkel Toms Hütte

Hardcover, 221 pages

German, Deutsch language

Published Dec. 26, 2001 by Arena.

ISBN:: 978-3-401-04473-6
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Goodreads:: 22698668

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Onkel Toms Hütte (Hardcover, German language, 2001, Arena)

Onkel Toms Hütte

Hardcover, 221 pages

German, Deutsch language

Published Dec. 26, 2001 by Arena.

ISBN:: 978-3-401-04473-6
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Goodreads:: 22698668

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin (1985, Modern Library)

Uncle Tom's cabin

552 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1985 by Modern Library.

ISBN:: 978-0-394-60527-2
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OCLC Number:: 11842284

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics) (2008, Oxford University Press)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)

536 pages

English language

Published Dec. 27, 2008 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-19-953803-4
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Goodreads:: 4859075

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) (2005)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

496 pages

English language

Published Jan. 30, 2005

ISBN:: 978-1-59308-121-8
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Goodreads:: 141197

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (2010)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

English language

Published 2010

ISBN:: 978-1-4417-1533-3
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (2002)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

695 pages

English language

Published June 1, 2002

ISBN:: 978-0-689-85126-1
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Goodreads:: 123981

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly (2005, Thorndike Press)

Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly

Hardcover, 840 pages

English language

Published June 23, 2005 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-7862-7684-4
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks (1982)

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks

1477 pages

English language

Published 1982

ISBN:: 978-0-940450-01-1
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Goodreads:: 123979

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin (1981, Bantam Classics)

Uncle Tom's cabin

Mass Market Paperback, 544 pages

English language

Published Dec. 27, 1981 by Bantam Classics.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-21218-1
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Goodreads:: 1046989

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Stone: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Cyber Classics) (1999, New Promise Inc)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Cyber Classics)

Paperback, 732 pages

Published Jan. 6, 1999 by New Promise Inc.

ISBN:: 978-1-55701-226-5
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OCLC Number:: 42360648

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (2016)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

480 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2016

ISBN:: 978-1-63106-244-5
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: La capanna dello zio Tom (Italian language, 1994)

La capanna dello zio Tom

560 pages

Italian language

Published 1994

ISBN:: 978-88-415-1735-2
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly (2001, Modern Library)

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly

662 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2001 by Modern Library.

ISBN:: 978-0-375-75693-1
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Goodreads:: 856053

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