Uncle Tom's Cabin /
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with an introduction by Alfred Kazin. - New York : A.A. Knopf, c1995. - xxix, 494 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 206. . - Everyman's library ; 206. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix).
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South.Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward "the peculiar institution" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the river." An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.
1050 Lexile.
0679443657 9780679443650 9780553212181 0553212184
96223895
Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Master and servant--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Plantation life--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
Slavery--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
Southern States--Fiction.
English fiction. United States.
Political fiction.
Didactic fiction.
PS2954 / .U5 1995
Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with an introduction by Alfred Kazin. - New York : A.A. Knopf, c1995. - xxix, 494 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 206. . - Everyman's library ; 206. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix).
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South.Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward "the peculiar institution" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the river." An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.
1050 Lexile.
0679443657 9780679443650 9780553212181 0553212184
96223895
Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Master and servant--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Plantation life--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
Slavery--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
Southern States--Fiction.
English fiction. United States.
Political fiction.
Didactic fiction.
PS2954 / .U5 1995