Uncle Tomis Cabin

Uncle Tom"s Cabin is the rnost popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe"s rich novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only "repentance. justice and mercy" will prevent the onset of "the wrath of Almighty God!".
The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe as "the little lady" who started the great Civi War, As Keith Carabine argues in his lively and provocative Introduction. the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among Northern and Southern readers, moderate and radical abolitionist groups, blacks and women with regard to issues of form. genre, politics, religion, race and gender, that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies.

Book Description
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This novel has earned the title of not only bestseller, but also the first protest novel to have a direct impact on political events. The story follows the life and vissitudes of Uncle Tom, a noble negro, and portrays the humanity of an enslaved black people and the moral evil of their enslavement.

From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
This is one of those books that everybody has heard about but few people these days have actually read. It deserves to be read - not simply because it is the basis for symbols so deeply ingrained in American culture that we no longer realize their source, nor because it is one of the bestselling books of all time. This is a book that changed history. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. It is unabashed propaganda and overtly moralistic, an attempt to make whites - North and South - see slaves as mothers, fathers, and people with (Christian) souls. In a time when women might see the majority of their children die, Harriet Beecher Stowe portrays beautiful Eliza fleeing slavery to protect her son. In a time when many whites claimed slavery had "good effects" on blacks, Uncle Tom's Cabin paints pictures of three plantations, each worse than the other, where even the best plantation leaves a slave at the mercy of fate or debt. By twentieth-century standards, her propaganda verges on melodrama, and it is clear that even while arguing for the abolition of slavery she did not rise above her own racism. Yet her questions remain penetrating even today: "Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power?"

From AudioFile
Classic nineteenth-century literature can be difficult to read and hear. But this production is an exception. Buck Schirner's characters are so vivid, so well enunciated, that we wish Stowe had created more people for Schirner to give voice to. His characters argue about slavery, lament their fortunes and survive by their wits. He gives each person emotion and depth and reads Stowe's prose with conviction. Indeed, it's hard not to, given the moral force behind her words. The only negative is when Schirner reads in his own voice, which is low and flat. Because of his excellent vocal work, though, the book reminds us that the debate over race and human worth was as vivid in the 1850's as it is today. R.I.G.

Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

AUTHOR"S PREFACE
I In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
II The Mother
III The Husband and Father
IV An Evening in Uncle Tom"s Cabin
V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
VI Discovery
VII The Mother"s Struggle
VIII Eliza"s Escape
IX In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man
X The Property is Carried Off
XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade
XIII The Quaker Settlement
XIV Evangeline
XV Of Tom"s New Master, and Various Other Matters
XVI Tom"s Mistress and Her Opiniom
XVII The Free Man"s Defence
SVIII Miss Ophelia"s Experiences and Opinions
XIX Miss Ophelia"s Experiences and Opinions (continued)
XX Topsy
XXI Kentuck
XXII "The Grass Withereth - the Flower Fadeth"
XXIII Henrique
XXIV Foreshadowings
XXV The Little Evangelist
XXVI Death
XXVII "This is the Last of Earth"
XXVIII Reunion
XXIX The Unprotected
XXX The Slave Warehouse
XXXI The Middle Passage
XXXII Dark Places
XXXIII Cassy
XXXIV The Quadroon"s Story
XXXV The Tokens
XXXVI Emmeline and Cassy
XXXVII Liberty
XXXVIII The Victory
XXXIX The Stratagem
XL The Martyr
XLI The Young Master
XLII An Authentic Ghost Story
XLIII Results
XLIV The Liberator
XLV Concluding Remarks