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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Contributor(s): Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Author), Ammons, Elizabeth (Editor)
ISBN: 039328378X     ISBN-13: 9780393283785
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $21.85  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: 813.3
LCCN: 2017019908
Lexile Measure: 1050
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (1.30 lbs) 664 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons's preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
  • Twenty-two illustrations.
  • A rich selection of historical documents on slavery and abolitionism.
  • Seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years.
  • A Chronology, A Brief Time Line of Slavery in America, and an updated Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Contributor Bio(s): Ammons, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Ammons is the Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Edith Wharton's Argument with America, and Brave New Worlds: How Literature Will Save the Planet. She is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook, American Color Writing, 1880-1920, Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.Stowe, Harriet Beecher: - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S. and Britain and made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions.