{"product_id":"harriet-beecher-stowe-three-novels-loa-4-uncle-toms-cabin-the-ministers-wooing-oldtown-folks","title":"Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels (Loa #4): Uncle Tom's Cabin \/ The Minister's Wooing \/ Oldtown Folks","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels (Loa #4): Uncle Tom's Cabin \/ The Minister's Wooing \/ Oldtown Folks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0940450011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLibrary of America\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1982\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFifth Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e1477\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn this Library of America volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, \"the little woman,\" as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in 1861, \"who wrote the book that made this great war.\" He was referring, with rueful exaggeration, to \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e (1852), which during its first year had sold over 300,000 copies. Contemporary readers can still appreciate the powerful effects of its melodramatic characterizations and its unapologetic sentimentality. They can also recognize in its treatment of racial violence some of the brooding imagination and realism that anticipates Faulkner's rendering of the same theme. Stowe was charged with exaggerating the evils of slavery, but her stay in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father (the formidable Lyman Beecher, head of the Lane Theological Seminary) gave her a close look at the miseries of the slave communities across the Ohio River. People in her circle of friends were continually harboring slaves who escaped across the river from Kentucky on the way, they hoped, to Canada. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Two other novels, along with \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, show the range and variety of her literary accomplishment. \u003ci\u003eThe Minister's Wooing\u003c\/i\u003e (1859) is set in Newport, Rhode Island, after the Revolution. It is a romance based in part on the life of Stowe's sister, and it traces to a happy ending the conflicts in a young woman between adherence to Calvinistic rigor and her expression of preference in the choice of a marital partner. The third novel, \u003ci\u003eOldtown Folks\u003c\/i\u003e (1869), confirms Stowe's genius for the realistic rendering of ordinary experience, her talent for social portraiture with a keen satiric edge, and her subtlety in exploring a wide group of themes, from child-rearing practices and religious controversy to romantic seduction and betrayal. But finally, it is the old town and a way of life that no longer exists that is the true subject of this elegiac novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels (Loa #4): Uncle Tom's Cabin \/ The Minister's Wooing \/ Oldtown Folks | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Hardcover | 0940450011 | Used: Good | 1771513","offer_id":49550964293784,"sku":"1771513","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81lFUp9O4SL.jpg?v=1784909853","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/harriet-beecher-stowe-three-novels-loa-4-uncle-toms-cabin-the-ministers-wooing-oldtown-folks","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}