UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
by STOWE, Harriet Beecher
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; xlii, 500, 12 pages, green pictorial cloth, printed on acidic paper, lacks front free endpaper
Features "An Introductory Account of the Work by the Author." [Hildreth p.15]. Also here is a thirty-page Introduction To The New Edition, which provides more background to this classic text. [ See Grolier American 100]
Features "An Introductory Account of the Work by the Author." [Hildreth p.15]. Also here is a thirty-page Introduction To The New Edition, which provides more background to this classic text. [ See Grolier American 100]
Synopsis
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century) and influential, it’s publication in 1852 was instrumental in bringing visibility to the cruel reality of slavery. In more recent years, it has come under considerable criticism for its portrayal of meekness and subservience and the phrase “Uncle Tom” is sometimes used as an epithet for someone seen as overly subservient.
Reviews
On Mar 31 2020, a reader said:
Excellent book to gain empathy and insight into the enslaved pathos, struggle and plight! This book presents well designed ideas to ennoble and elivate the human race as brothers, and sisters of a common God, and Father of us all.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO015879I
- Title
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
- Author
- STOWE, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Enlarged Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- slavery, slavery, abolition, Grolier American 100, Grolier 100,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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