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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Dj
- ISBN 10
- 0895773678
- ISBN 13
- 9780895773678
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Reader's Digest Assn., Pleasantville, NY, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/No Dj. Octavo, hardcover, beautiful brown and gold binding; 416 pp. Publisher's pamphlet laid in. A monumental book in U. S. history contributing to the Civil War. the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s In the first year after it was published, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings
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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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61932
- Title
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0895773678
- ISBN 13
- 9780895773678
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Assn., Pleasantville, NY, 1991
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville, Ny
- This edition first published
- 1991
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