Record details

• ISBN: 0375756930
• ISBN: 9780375756931
• Physical Description: xxi, 662 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: 2001 Modern Library paperback edition.
• Publisher: New York, NY : Modern Library, [2001].
• Copyright: ©1852

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes a Modern Library reading group guide.

Formatted Contents Note:

Biographical note -- Introduction by Jane Smiley -- In which the reader is introduced to a man of humanity -- The mother -- The husband and father -- An evening in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Showing the feelings of living property on changing owners -- Discovery -- The mother's struggle -- Eliza's escape -- In which it appears that a senator is but a man -- The property is carried off -- In which property gets into an improper state of mind -- Select incident of lawful trade -- The Quaker settlement -- Evangeline -- Of Tom's new master, and various other matters -- Tom's mistress and her opinions -- The free man's defence -- Miss Ophelia's experiences and opinions -- Miss Ophelia's experiences and opinions (continued) -- Topsy -- Kentuck -- "The grass withereth-the flowers fadeth" -- Henrique -- Foreshadowings -- The little evangelist -- Death -- "This is the last of Earth" -- Reunion -- The unprotected -- The slave warehouse -- The middle passage -- Dark places -- Cassy -- The Quadroon's story -- The tokens -- Emmeline and Cassy -- Liberty -- The victory -- The strategem -- The martyr -- The young master -- An authentic ghost story -- Results -- The libernator -- Concluding remarks -- Commentary -- Reading group guide

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.3 32 16725.

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Subject:

Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Master and servant > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Fiction.
Plantation life > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Enslaved persons > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.

Genre:

Didactic fiction.
Political fiction.

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• Modern Library classics.