Harriet Beecher Stowe
Praise for Uncle Tom's Cabin
Its power is that it never makes light of slavery and its attendant vast misery
John Updike, New Yorker
A century and a half since its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin retains a fascination for Americans… it stoked a furious hostility among many Americans to the continuation of slavery in their own Southern state ...
Daily Telegraph
The novel's impact was global… Among those who hailed it as a masterpiece were Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot
Gary Younge, Guardian
Its power is that it never makes light of slavery and its attendant vast misery
John Updike, New Yorker
A century and a half since its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin retains a fascination for Americans… it stoked a furious hostility among many Americans to the continuation of slavery in their own Southern state ...
Daily Telegraph
The novel's impact was global… Among those who hailed it as a masterpiece were Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot
Gary Younge, Guardian
Its power is that it never makes light of slavery and its attendant vast misery
John Updike, New Yorker
A century and a half since its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin retains a fascination for Americans… it stoked a furious hostility among many Americans to the continuation of slavery in their own Southern state ...
Daily Telegraph
The novel's impact was global… Among those who hailed it as a masterpiece were Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot
Gary Younge, Guardian
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The Greatest American Novels you should read
The Great American Novel is, without a whisper of doubt, literature’s most elusive (some say mythical) beast. For 150 years, since the novelist John William DeForest first coined the term, the argument over what constitutes a GAN has rumbled on and on. So here are ten of our favourite contenders.