The Library After Dark
The cover of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A novel written to make an entire country feel, in the body, what it had mostly managed to consider only in the abstract. It is credited, not entirely as a compliment by everyone, with helping start a war. Read it as the document it actually is: furious, sentimental, and aimed with total precision at its moment.

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Reading time
About 12 hr 15 min
Where to find it
On the Contested shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #203. In the public domain in the United States.

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