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Tag: 10.23.06
Rethinking Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin, first published in 1852, sold 10,000 copies within days of publication, 300,000 within a year. In a few decades it had been read in dozens of languages and so inspired Tolstoy that he regarded it as a model. But during the last half-century, the book has come to be seen almost as caricature.”