""The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about
American slavery.""
-Alfred Kazin
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, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 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.
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.
The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from "Harriet
Beecher Stowe: Three Novels," volume number 4 in The Library of
America series. That volume also includes "The Minister's Wooing
"and "Oldtown Folks."
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