TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stowe,Harriet Beecher
TI  - Uncle Tom's Cabin
T2  - Everyman's library
SN  - 0679443657
AV  - PS2954 .U5 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - A.A. Knopf
KW  - Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Master and servant
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Southern States
KW  - English fiction
KW  - United States
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix); 1050; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; UG; 9.3; 32.0; 16725; Reading Counts RC; High School; 7.5; 40; Quiz: 11975; Guided reading level: NR
N2  - 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
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