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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Or, Life Among the Lowly
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 0140390030
ISBN-13: 9780140390032
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause.
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"In 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', the most beautiful passage is perhaps the one in which the poor slave, knowing he must die, and sitting for the last time with his wife, remembers the words, '...May I but safely reach my home,/My God, my heaven, my all.' This is far from theology, simply a fact, that the poorest little woodcutter or peasant...can have moments of emotion and inspiration which give him a feeling of an eternal home to which he is near." -- Vincent Van Gogh
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 1986
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 629
Synopses
A guide to reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
Publisher's Notes
First published in 1859, and set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel and domestic comedy that satirizes Calvinism, celebrating its intellectual and moral integrity while critiquing its rigid theology. Mary Scudder lives with her widowed mother in a modest middle-class home. Dr. Hopkins, a Calvinist minister who boards with them, is dedicated to helping the slaves arriving at Newport and calls for the abolition of slavery. The pious Mary admires him but is also in love with the passionate but skeptical James Marvyn who, hungry for adventure, joins the crew of a ship setting sail for exotic destinations. When James is presumed lost at sea, Mary fears for his soul, and consents to marry the good Doctor. With important insights on slavery, history, and gender, as well as characters based on historical figures, The Minister's Wooing is, as Susan Harris notes in her Introduction, "an historical novel, like Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter or Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie or A New England Tale; it is an attempt through fiction to create a moral, intellectual, and affective history for New England."
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Uncle Tom's Cabin : or, Life among the Lowly
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. Paperback. 1st printing of this Penguin American Library mass market paperback edition. Edited with an Introduction by Ann Douglas. Light reading creases to spine else a clean tight copy - Very Good in printed wrappers. ( more information)
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Douglas, Ann
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Douglas, Ann (editor)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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