Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Front hinge of spine repaired with cloth & rear endpaper mended with tissue. Sl. wear to cloth edges & some dampstaining
- Seller
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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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.
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Reviews
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
- Schooner Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43922
- Title
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth with blind designs to border & gilt vignette to front and titles to spine. All edges gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Front hinge of spine repaired with cloth & rear endpaper mended with tissue. Sl. wear to cloth edges & some dampstaining
- Edition
- Illustrated Editon. Complete in One Volume
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Son and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books
- Size
- 8vo.
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- Title Page
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...