{"product_id":"uncle-toms-cabin-or-life-among-the-lowly-paperback-1","title":"Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJane Smiley\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Includes a Modern Library reading group guide\"--P. [4] of cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time. Langston Hughes called it \"a moral battle cry,\" noting that \"the love and warmth and humanity that went into its writing keep it alive a century later,\" and Tolstoy described it as \"flowing from love of God and man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe, a prolific writer best remembered today for \u003cb\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, into a prominent New England family. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a well-known Congregational minister, and her brother Henry Ward Beecher became a distinguished preacher, orator, and lecturer. Like all the Beechers she grew up with a strong sense of wanting to improve humanity. At the age of thirteen Harriet Beecher enrolled in the Hartford Female Seminary and subsequently taught there until 1832, when the family moved to Cincinnati. In Ohio she was an instructor at a school founded by her elder sister Catharine, and she soon began publishing short stories in the \u003ci\u003eWestern Monthly Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour years later, in 1836, Harriet Beecher married Calvin Stowe, a respected biblical scholar and theologian by whom she had seven children. In order to supplement the family's meager income she continued writing. \u003cb\u003eThe Mayflower\u003c\/b\u003e, her first collection of stories and sketches, appeared in 1843. During this period abolitionist conflicts rocked Cincinnati, and Mrs. Stowe witnessed firsthand the misery of slaves living just across the Ohio River in Kentucky. But not until the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was she inspired to write about their plight. After the family resettled in Brunswick, Maine, when Mr. Stowe was hired as a professor at Bowdoin College, she began working on a novel that would expose the evils of slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst serialized in the \u003ci\u003eNational Era, \u003c\/i\u003e an abolitionist paper, in forty weekly installments between June 5, 1851, and April 1, 1852, and published as a book on March 20, 1852, \u003cb\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ewas an enormous success. Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature 'flowing from love of God and man, ' and within a year the book had sold more than 300,000 copies. When \u003cb\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/b\u003e appeared in Great Britain Queen Victoria sent Mrs. Stowe a note of gratitude, and enthusiastic crowds greeted the author in London on her first trip abroad in 1853. In an attempt to silence the many critics at home who denounced the work as vicious propaganda, Mrs. Stowe brought out \u003cb\u003eA Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/b\u003e in 1853, which contained documentary evidence substantiating the graphic picture of slavery she had drawn. \u003cb\u003eDred \u003c\/b\u003e(1856), a second antislavery novel, did not enjoy the acclaim of \u003cb\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e yet the author had already stirred the conscience of the nation and the world, fueling sentiments that would ignite the Civil War. When Abraham Lincoln met her at the White House in 1862 he allegedly remarked: 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn subsequent novels Stowe shifted her attention away from the issue of slavery. Beginning with \u003cb\u003eThe Minister's Wooing\u003c\/b\u003e (1859), and continuing with \u003cb\u003eThe Pearl of Orr's Island \u003c\/b\u003e(1862), \u003cb\u003eOldtown Folks (\u003c\/b\u003e1869), and \u003cb\u003ePoganuc People\u003c\/b\u003e (1878), she presented a perceptive and realistic chronicle of colonial New England, focusing especially on the theological warfare that underscored Puritan life. In a second and less popular series of novels--\u003cb\u003eMy Wife and I\u003c\/b\u003e (1871), \u003cb\u003ePink and White Tyranny\u003c\/b\u003e (1871), and \u003cb\u003eWe and Our Neighbors\u003c\/b\u003e (1875)--she depicted the mores of post-Civil War America. Mrs. Stowe did enjoy success, however, with the controversial \u003cb\u003eLady Byron Vindicated\u003c\/b\u003e (1870), a bold defense of her friend Anne, Lady Byron, that scandalously revealed Lord Byron's moral delinquency. In addition she became a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, which published many of the memorable short stories later collected in \u003cb\u003eOldtown Fireside Stories\u003c\/b\u003e (1872) and \u003cb\u003eSam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories\u003c\/b\u003e (1881). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe wrote little during the last years of her life. She died in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 1, 1896. Perhaps Mrs. Stowe's achievement was best summed up by abolitionist Frederick Douglass who said: 'Hers was the word for the hour.'\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 8.03 x 5.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2001\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":51755640258848,"sku":"9780375756931","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ed8e29cf130f79828c881f962d1db9ed.webp?v=1780064436","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/uncle-toms-cabin-or-life-among-the-lowly-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}