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Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'.An aparitie: 1999Format: 19,8 X 12,9Numar pagini: 480

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.''Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe''s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to secure their freedom was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Centred round t...