Uncle Tom's Cabin / Uncle Tom's Cabin. A Book for Reading in English

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) — a renowned American writer.

The novel «Uncle Tom's Cabin» (1851) gained wide popularity; within the first ten years of its first edition, it was translated into 22 languages and ranked second (after the Bible) on the list of best-selling books in the world.

The novel tells the difficult fate of black people in America in the mid-19th century. The realistic depiction of the horrors of slavery exposes its inhumanity and proves the necessity of its abolition.