Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harret Beecher Stowe With an introduction by Alfred Kazin Uncle Tom, Topsy, Simon Legree, LIttle Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. It remains a shocking, controvexrsial, and powerful work - exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward the peculiar Institution "and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky famllies" sold down the river. An Immediate intemational sensation, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN sold 300,000 coples in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print. Its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable. Pages in unmarked, unread condition. Cover has minor shelf wear to edges. Tiny crease top corner of cover. Light remainder mark across top foredge of pages.