Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Geneva: Edito-Service Gold title and decoration to spine on dark green leatherette spine with ornate gold decoration on mustard coloured leatherette boards. A Fine unmarked copy. Yellow page marker bound in. Uniform with Books That Have Changed Man's Thinking Series. With an introduction and appreciation by Kenneth Allsop. Portrait frontispiece and 21 illustrations. Not dated but circa late 1960's / early 1970's. 11. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century) and influential, it’s publication in 1852 was instrumental in bringing visibility to the cruel reality of slavery. In more recent years, it has come under considerable criticism for its portrayal of meekness and subservience and the phrase “Uncle Tom” is sometimes used as an epithet for someone seen as overly subservient.
Reviews
On Mar 31 2020, a reader said:
Excellent book to gain empathy and insight into the enslaved pathos, struggle and plight! This book presents well designed ideas to ennoble and elivate the human race as brothers, and sisters of a common God, and Father of us all.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002710
- Title
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Edito-Service
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - American Authors;
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