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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Hardback

Main Details

Title Uncle Tom's Cabin
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Harriet Beecher Stowe
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:494
Dimensions(mm): Height 211,Width 31
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781857152067
ClassificationsDewey:813.3
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 27 April 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Published in 1851, Harriet Beecher-Stowe's novel rapidly became world-famous and remained so. A didactic and sentimental drama set among the slaves of the American South, Uncle Tom's Cabin is nevertheless a lively and forceful story. It made a major contribution to the Emancipationist cause and probably helped to sway the outcome of the Civil War. Given the history of race relations in our time it remains relevant even today.

Author Biography

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter - she drew on her anger from this to write UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century after the Bible. It was hugely influential in the abolition debate, and catapulted Stowe into the spotlight. When President Abraham Lincolm met her he is reported to have described her as 'the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War'. Over the course of her long career she wrote over thirty books and essays, poems and articles. She died in 1896.