{"product_id":"uncle-toms-cabin-a-library-of-america-paperback-classic-paperback","title":"Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Library of America Paperback Classic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames M. McPherson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Alfred Kazin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he greeted her as \"the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.\" He was exaggerating only slightly. First published in 1852, \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year and brought home the evils of slavery more dramatically than any abolitionist tract possibly could. With its boldly drawn characters, violent reversals of fortune, and unabashed sentimentality, Stowe's work remains one of the great polemical novels of American literature, a book with the emotional impact of a round of cannon fire.\u003cbr\u003e For almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Now, a new series, Library of America Paperback Classics, offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of America's authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes.\u003cbr\u003e The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from \u003ci\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, volume number 4 in The Library of America series. That volume also includes \u003ci\u003eThe Minister's Wooing \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOldtown Folks\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe\u003c\/b\u003e (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836. The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves, and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the Negro in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet's sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e was first published serially during 1851-52 in The National Era, and in book form in 1852. In one year more than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold. Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames M. McPherson\u003c\/b\u003e is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eBattle Cry of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrossroads of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFor Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Uncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.3\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770918502688,"sku":"9781598530865","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1dbc885d995eab090ea5543b16c58f70.webp?v=1780380771","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/uncle-toms-cabin-a-library-of-america-paperback-classic-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}