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Uncle Tom's Cabin: With A New Preface Expressly Written For This Edition, Authorized For The Continent Of Europe
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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- first
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About This Item
Uncle Tom's Cabin, With A New Preface Expressly Written For This Edition, Authorized For The Continent Of Europe, Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1852. From the Collection of British Authors; Volume One: CCXLIII. Volume Two: CCXLIV. 16mo up to 6½" tall. Volume One: 352pp. with frontis portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe; preface; title; contents. Volume Two: 317pp., with half-title; table of contents; 2 frontis illustrative plates: "Scenes Under The Shadow Of American Law"; "Uncle Tom's Death". Half green leather, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Banded spine with florets in gilt. Contents appear in unread condition with an occasional light foxing mark; very light toning; pastoral bookplate to blank page. Boards in very nice condition with rubbing to edges. This rare copy was published in the same year as the first edition, with copyright authorized for the European market.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's New Preface, addressed criticisms of the book, as well as an explanation of why American slavery should concern Europeans.
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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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4427
- Title
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- RARE AND COLLECTIBLE; LITERATURE;
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