About this title: Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel. Declared worthless and dehumanising by James Baldwin in 1949, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has lacked literary credibility for over fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Gates demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. First published in 1852, it galvanised the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-American Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists and the ...
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Edition: Annotated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. near perfect, like new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 480 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Annotated Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Paul S Eriksson, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Harriett Beecher Stowe's novel about a kind-hearted slave who suffers at the hands of the cruel Simon Legree literally changed the course of American history. This annotated edition is the only one that "gives the sources for this world-famous novel. " The dust jacket has general shelf wear, including some tears and chipping at the edges, but is still in good shape. The book itself is in great shape, with very little wear and a stamp on the ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Good, solid copy of Stowe's immortal novel which helped set the stage for the US Civil War. Lengthy introduction by Van Doren Stern ("The only edition that gives the sources for this world-famous novel"). Numerous [unattributed] illustrations dot the interior. In full tan cloth covers, rubberstamping on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked interior and clean & tight. Dust jacket good, with illustration on covers. Back dust jacket cover has 1" hole torn in ... read more
Description: Stowe, Harriet Beecher w/intro by Philip Van Doren Stern (editor)., pub. by Paul S. Eriksson Inc., nd, c1964, 1st Edition, cloth, vg w/very slightly chipped & spine tanned dj, 591 pp w/notes, B & W illus., tall 8vo, "The Only Edition that Gives the Sources for this World-famous Novel" read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2006-11-01
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
Description: New in New jacket. New, Hardback, Dust Jacket, Black and White Illustrations, Color Illustrations. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1964 Eriksson hard cover-Stern editor and introduction-some staining to dust jacket cover and page edge-otherwise binding fine contents clean-enjoy. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. W. W. Norton, 2006. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, New York and London
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Thick 4to. 2005 Stated 1st Edition, 1st Printing. FINE in FINE, unclipped, dust jacket. Crisp, clean with no markings of any kind, in sturdy, straight, binding, unclipped dust jacket. Pages, hardcover and jacket are "as new. " Jacket is in a clear archival protector. A handsomely produced and thoroughly researched annotated edition, generously illustrated with illustrative and archival reproductions, including 16 pages of color. 2-color printing to differentiate annotations ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780393059465ISBN:0393059464
Description: Hardcover. Good Used. Minimal Bent Pages; Frayed Corners. SKU: 23416667 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780393059465 Good Used. Minimal Bent Pages; Frayed Corners. SKU: 23416667 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
"For years I steered clear of this book thinking I was protecting my delicate sensibilities ;) by avoiding the hideous topic of slavery and oppression. I expected it to be ugly and painful to read, but necessary as a reminder of how far we've come and how we, as individuals can shape the world around us. But this book was incredibly written.
Stowe is an absolute artist with her words and does an impeccable job articulating the roughest of scenarios without the need for being graphic and still, vividly, gets her point across.
Stowe, clearly, has an ulterior motive w/ this piece as a platform for Christianity, and although preachy at times she still manages to be objective in even the Christian point of view and illustrates many examples when Christianity was used as an excuse for slavery rather than a movement against it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is poignant, beautiful and filled with hope and vision. And I am SO glad I overcame my fear of the ugly and read it."
"Finally finished! Okay, so the writing wasn't always the best, and I could wish for a little more character development, but despite these I still have to give this book a 5. It was such an experience!
As an aside... I find fault with many of the serious criticisms of the novel. All most popular novels seem to undergo excessive criticism. We've seen a recent example in the Harry Potter controversy. They are wizards and witches and it's about magic, and therefore evil? We should forget all the moral tales and overarching good-triumphing-over-evil theme? Ridiculous. Uncle Tom's Cabin may have further spread stereotypes, so now it's a bad novel? We should forget that it was, rightly, a motivational force in hurrying along the abolitionist movement? Again, ridiculous. For that outcome, hurrah for it being sensationalist at the time. Attention and shock were needed then. And who can doubt that such evil characters did exist? We may be a free country now, but evil people still exist. Surly they existed (and with the force of the law to back them!) during the times of slavery. How can people take issue with Stowe's account, and her lack of direct experience, when the informed mind can easily imagine similar experiences happened many times over.
Anyway, I think the nay-sayers should place less emphasis on the ridiculous and more on the intention. There's an obvious reason this celebrated novel is such a force in classical American literature. Okay, I'm stepping down now. :)"
"I took up this book with dubious expectations. Even the title itself sounded like an unimaginative prologue to a maudlin tale from a haughty female. (In the final pages, the title is given meaning.) But it took only a few chapters before I realized that I was experiencing a true classic. The book has five virtues. One, it is a historic artifact, something from the distant past, describing events and thoughts experienced by people of another age, an age not so distant in chronological years, but of a vastly distant world, an age where somehow human bondage was an accepted part of the culture. Two, it has historic import-it is a book that was very influential in its time, and its power is evident from the passion with which the writer tells her story. Three, it is a well told story, exciting in its drama. Four, it is not mere storytelling, but is an impassioned moral and political essay. The message it delivered was urgent. Five, it is written with great literary skill. This is among the most eloquent prose I've read in some time. It was a pleasure to experience the well-formed sentence structure, the adroit vocabulary, the use of various dialects in the character dialogue, and the writer's command of the English language. Yet it was grounded enough in historic fact and message that the writing was not mere fanciful entertainment. There was only one point in the narrative that I thought slowed and lost some of its vigor. And, granted, the story had moments of incredulity and may not be a balanced portrayal of slave conditions. But these did not serve to significantly undermine of overall force of the work. My complements go to "the little woman who started the big war," as Lincoln called her."
"Wow. An important book, surely, historically, and I found the forward more interesting than most as it argued about the book's place in American Literature. (Though, sadly, like most academic forwards, rife with spoilers. Lady! I'm reading this for the first time, don't tell me who dies and who gets married and who goes to Africa!)
Stowe's strength is in her more merry passages, particularly when she can put her bible down for five seconds and turn a wry, Twain-like eye on popular culture. Sadly, these passages are too few and far between, drowning under gallons of preaching and an over-sentimentalized series of accounts that rob the actions of their innate horror. She did her homework, and the accounts of atrocities of slavery jive with those I've read in Frederick Douglas' autobiography, but I would recommend Douglas' work over hers twenty-to-one. It is more compassionate, more rooted in reality, and lest damn preachy.
Also, there are a few very very offensive passages that just made me gasp and want to look away..."
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