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Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. 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... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “Mas'r Legree, as ye bought me, I'll be a true and faithful servant to ye. I'll give ye all the work of my hands, all my time, all my strength; but my soul I won't give up to mortal man. I will hold on the Lord, and put His commands before all--die or live; you may be sure on't.”
    Tom
  • “Yes, Mas'r, I'm willin' to work night and day, and work while there's life and breath in me; but this yer thing I can't fel it right to do; and, Mas'r, I never shall do it---never.”
    Tom

First Sentence

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P-, in Kentucky.

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  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author)
 

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