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  <title><![CDATA[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]></title>
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  <default_description>Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. &lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Uncle Tom's Cabin&lt;/i&gt; 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 and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1851</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[history classes, Beloved fanatics]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 28 02:30:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[O.k. so I was supposed to read this in my high school a.p. class.  I think my friend and I may even have taken turns reading parts of it, but it never really happened. But, this last semester I actually read it twice, because that's what my Amer. Romanticism professor suggested we do, and, to be hon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5209615">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 11 10:46:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 11 10:48:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I wish this was still required reading in schools. Can you imagine: a book that was credited by President Lincoln with bringing about the Civil War, and is known to have so effected the hearts of readers that it changed their opinions of slavery is hardly read in the country whose face it chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12256233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26491121">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 06 20:24:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 06 20:25:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life-changing book.  This was a great read-aloud with my kids.  We finished it on Easter Sunday - very appropriate.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="29926926">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of the most moving, provocative pieces of literature I've ever read, and it's the first time that I can recall being moved to tears from a book. As long as I live, I will never be able to remove from my mind the vision of Eliza, panicked and frenzied, in the dead of the night with h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29926926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20950798">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 25 02:24:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 25 02:50:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know, I know, it's a monumental artifact in American history, and the catalyst to the spread of the abolitionist movement to the masses. I totally appreciate the historical and cultural significance of this book. No question.<br/><br/>But seriously, y'all? This book SUCKS as a piece of literatur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20950798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49247200">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 10:44:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 13:19:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  An important book, surely, historically, and I found the forward more interesting than most as it argued about the book's place in American Literature. (Though, sadly, like most academic forwards, rife with spoilers.  Lady! I'm reading this for the first time, don't tell me who dies and who ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49247200">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 19:00:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having had an abiding interest in studying the Civil War, I have been surprised at myself that I have not previously read Uncle Tom's Cabin.  I have now remedied that failure.  I found the book riveting in parts.  Harriett Beecher Stowe is a better writer than I expected.  Her powerful character dev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38664405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31257963">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 12 07:58:54 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first exposure I ever had to this story was the musical number within the movie The King and I.<br/><br/>You can obviously tell that this isn't a modern book by any standards.  Although the best selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling <em>book</em> after the Bible, it is completel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31257963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1783098">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 08 15:42:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 08 15:45:25 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I normally like Harriet Beecher Stowe's style of writing but the other stories I've read were written for fun. She made a comfortable living as a writer of boys adventure novels (under the pen name &quot;Christopher Crowfield&quot;) and was a neighbor and mentor of Mark Twain. Uncle Tom's Cabin had ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1783098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19455403">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[barley and maize]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 04 11:47:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 04 12:24:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok ok this book is totally melodramatic, writhes in its own excess, and features several of those characters that are not characters at all, but rather are just embodiments of some trait or characteristic. avatars if you will. i don't really like that. i like my characters to have a little more meat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19455403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12163035">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know it may shock some of you that I'm so behind on my reading list, but this was the first time I'd read Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of my profs warned me that it may take some getting used to and that students found it difficult to engage with the text. Therefore, I was taken by surprise when the nar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12163035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42671635">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 11 08:55:38 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aside from the important and sensitive subject matter: Yes, the writing is sometimes overblown. Like Charles Dickens novels, Harriet Beecher Stowe wants to impart (very!) important moral lessons, prodding with scenes of heartwarming carrots and heartwrenching sticks of degradation. Stowe's literary ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42671635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41988559">
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    <location><![CDATA[Melbourne, 07, Australia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some books which one gets to know by reputation before one actually reads them. &quot;Uncle Tom's Cabin (or, Life Among the Lowly)&quot; by Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of them. Whether from studying American History and slavery, and hearing the pejorative term &quot;Uncle Tom&quot;, one g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41988559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39353701">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and at least one of the minor characters, are frequently mocked by modern black activists, rappers and comedians. Therefore, when I began reading this novel, originally published in 1852, I was expecting a woefully-outdated story with painful, outrageous ster...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39353701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65700014">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laurie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally finished! Okay, so the writing wasn't always the best, and I could wish for a little more character development, but despite these I still have to give this book a 5. It was such an <em>experience</em>! <br/><br/>As an aside...<br/>I find fault with many of the serious criticisms of the novel. All...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65700014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62517547">
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    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 13:59:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 07 14:04:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took up this book with dubious expectations.  Even the title itself sounded like an unimaginative prologue to a maudlin tale from a haughty female.  (In the final pages, the title is given meaning.)  But it took only a few chapters before I realized that I was experiencing a true classic.  The boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62517547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61621545">
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    <body><![CDATA[So I'm finally catching up with some of our book club's books that I've had backlogged for the past few months. I liked this one, but I had some issues with it as well (Alyssa, you can skip this review since it's basically the conversation we had. :) ). Aside from the violent parts that I had to ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43874945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like I had to read this, and it was really hard to get through.  I know some of it is just the writing style of the time, but it was just a slow read for me.  I was a bit surprised at the heavy-handedness of the religious tone of the book, although I realize that it makes  alot of sense for l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36872853">more...</a>]]></body>
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