Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly - Harriet Stowe

...to modern fiction, don't bother. Uncle Tom's Cabin is essentially a product of a very specific time in American history (it was published in 1852) and it is very important to consider attitudes at the time when reading it. Upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln only half-jokingly referrred to her as 'the little lady' who started the American civil war because of the phenomenal success of this novel. And make no mistake: it was phenomenal. ...
...at the time, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold enough copies for there to be one for every four or five readers by the time of the civil war. The introduction to my Wordsworth Classics edition (well worth getting for the extensive notes and introduction) hails it as "arguably the most popular and certainly the most influential novel ever written by an American" - a great achievement when you consider the giants Beecher Stowe is up against (Hemingway, Faulkner, ...

DoubleFantasy11 08.07.2006 · Read full review
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was written specifically by Harriet Beecher Stowe inorder to appeal to white middle class American women at the time and to inform them of the issues that were surrounding the treatment of different races within American society. This book was written when slavery was still seen by the majority as acceptable and the way things were supposed to be, which was obviously a good incentive for the more perceptive to point out the huge ...
...to sell her son, and Uncle Tom who is sold and has to suffer the humility and problems of a variety of different masters. Many of the white characeters within the novel are taught to respect the slaves, and the moral of the novel is hamered home a little too strongly, but a good read nonetheless. ...

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