Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 261)

xxiii, 552 pp. This is a book that changed history. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. -Bauermeister