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Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Contributor(s): Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Author), McPherson, James M. (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1598530860     ISBN-13: 9781598530865
Publisher: Library of America
OUR PRICE:   $10.76  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010927102
Lexile Measure: 1050
Series: Library of America
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5" W x 7.9" (1.10 lbs) 544 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 16725
Reading Level: 9.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 32.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.
-Alfred Kazin

When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he greeted her as the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. He was exaggerating only slightly. First published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year and brought home the evils of slavery more dramatically than any abolitionist tract possibly could. With its boldly drawn characters, violent reversals of fortune, and unabashed sentimentality, Stowe's work remains one of the great polemical novels of American literature, a book with the emotional impact of a round of cannon fire.
For almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Now, a new series, Library of America Paperback Classics, offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of America's authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes.
The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels, volume number 4 in The Library of America series. That volume also includes The Minister's Wooing and Oldtown Folks.