Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks (Library of America)

2839 Pages·1982·5.89 MB·English

by  Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
THREE NOVELS
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN or, Life among the Lowly
THE MINISTER'S WOOING
OLDTOWN FOLKS
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Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 1982 by
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
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of the American National Standard for Information
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39.48-1984.
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Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam Inc.
and Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-18629
For Cataloging in Publication Data, see end of Notes section.
0-940450-01-1
ISBN
Tenth Printing
The Library of America4
Manufactured in the United States of America
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KATHRYN KISH SKLAR
WROTE THE NOTES AND CHRONOLOGY
AND SELECTED THE CONTENTS
FOR THIS VOLUME
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The publishers wish to thank the Stowe-Day Foundation and
the Library of Congress for their assistance.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation for their generous support of this series.
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CONTENTS
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly 1
The Minister's Wooing 521
Oldtown Folks 877
Chronology 1469
Note on the Texts 1474
Notes 1476
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE
LOWLY
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CONTENTS
Volume I
Preface 9
Chapter I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of 11
Humanity
Chapter II. The Mother 22
Chapter III. The Husband and Father 26
Chapter IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin 32
Chapter V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on 45
Changing Owners
Chapter VI. Discovery 57
Chapter VII. The Mother's Struggle 67
Chapter VIII. Eliza's Escape 81
Chapter IX. In Which It Appears that a Senator Is but a 98
Man
Chapter X. The Property Is Carried Off 116
Chapter XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper 127
State of Mind
Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade 142
Chapter XIII. The Quaker Settlement 162
Chapter XIV. Evangeline 172
Chapter XV. Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other 183
Matters
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Chapter XVI. Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions 200
Chapter XVII. The Freeman's Defence 220
Chapter XVIII. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions 240
Volume II
Chapter XIX. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, 257
Continued
Chapter XX. Topsy 278
Chapter XXI. Kentuck 295
Chapter XXII. "The Grass WitherethThe Flower Fadeth" 301
Chapter XXIII. Henrique 311
Chapter XXIV. Foreshadowings 320
Chapter XXV. The Little Evangelist 327
Chapter XXVI. Death 333
Chapter XXVII. "This Is the Last of Earth" 347
Chapter XXVIII. Reunion 355
Chapter XXIX. The Unprotected 371
Chapter XXX. The Slave Warehouse 379
Chapter XXXI. The Middle Passage 391