Uncle Tom's Cabin

The language was a bit of a challenge when I started reading, as it was written in colloquial speech. I bought this book because there is a stereotypical term used today that this book may dispel. I wanted to find this out for myself.

It's a classic. This is a great book about a hellacious institution. The decency and depravity of both white and black Americans are depicted well by Stowe. She was an incredible researcher the way she ferrets out the intricacies of human interactions as well as the wounds slavery inflicted on both blacks and whites.

Oh, my goodness. After all these years, while chasing through some research, I finally got around to reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. This fabulous book through its fascinating story examines every facet and argument about slavery. I cannot help but admire the woman Harriet Beecher Stowe as she nails it down as an author. Of course, if one purchases certain modern editions of the book with all the frontal commentary, and takes seriously those jaded words, she could possibly feel discouraged enough to toss the book down. But! Never mind that, and neve rmind the negative hype you may have heard in passing (probably from someone who didn't even read the book). This worthy story is a heart-capturing must-read. My only regret is I didn't read it sooner.

Classic literature. Disappointed to find that it's the censored version. The description did not say that.

Order was received very quickly and book was in great shape. Print is very small so reading is going a little slower than expected!

considering that my great great grandmother wrote this, I give it every star available!! written well and quite informative on the times. Every one should take the time to read this book or portions of it.

Of course the book itself was great. However I purchased for a class and was disappoint that the only thing between the covers was the story. There is not table of contents, publishing information and so on. Since I had purchased this book for a class, I had to google an online version to do citations on. I wish they would have specified there was no information aside from the actual story and not even a table of contents.

Reading this book again at 77, remembering it from school days, struck me how powerful it must have been in the US when published in times of slavery. I dont think in my childhoos it was emphasised strongly enough what slavery meant, as in my country there were no African slaves like in the US. This novel read by an adult in modern times is devastating. What a genius the way the author portrayed the social situation.