by Harriet Beecher Stowe · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840224023
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Uncle Tom's Cabin» is the classic fiction novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (480 pages, in English).
The work tells the life of Tom, a kind-hearted African American slave, and his ordeal at the hands of several masters, including the brutal Simon Legree, portraying the harshness of slavery in the American South before the Civil War. The novel dramatizes the nation's shared responsibility for that sin and advocates repentance, justice and mercy as the only paths to avoid divine punishment.
This edition from the Wordsworth Classics collection includes an introduction and notes by Dr. Keith Carabine, of the University of Kent at Canterbury, and is considered one of the most influential and controversial works written by an American author.
Recommended for readers of classic fiction and American social history who want to discover the novel that drove the abolitionist movement.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play and was influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote over 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.
