Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harret Beecher Stowe

1967 Edition

The subject of the good man opposed by the forces of evil is a predominant American theme, whether in the novels of the nineteenth century or in the Western epics of twentieth century television.

What makes Uncle Tom's Cabin decidedly different from much of the other important American fiction is that goodness here is defined so absolutely in Christian terms.

If Ralph Waldo Emerson could define evil as the absence of good, Harriet Beccher Stowe sees it as the lack of Christian morality.

Whereas Herman Melville or Mark Twain would write of the initiation of the hero into the meaning of life - in all its evil dimensions - Mrs. Stowe  chose, instead, to expose the American reader to the half-known world of slavery-an evil created, not by the devil, but my man; not by the Southerner, but by the entire American nation.

Pages in unmarked condition. Small date written at top cover page. Inside covers have foxing. Cover has chipping at corners and edges, and creasing near spine. Back cover has some discoloration.