Hardcover - London: Vickers, circa 1852. - Condition: Good - 4to. 21 x 27.5 cm. 8.5 x 10.875 inches. Half polished brown calf and paper boards; spine-tips slightly damaged Paris 1-6 parts in one vol. with continuous pagination, 96p.A few leaves slightly foxed; a few small tears in inner margin; A fine copy. "Uncle Tom's Cabin is not only the most thrilling Novel ever written in America, but the most interesting and startling work of the age." (from the introduction). A very rare early edition...| www.abebooks.com
Most countries take their popular novelists more seriously than America has — Not preachy or overdetermined — Reads like the offspring of Dickens and Tolstoy — Yes, it has issues, beginning is uneven — The term “Great American Novel” was literally invented to describe this book| www.woman-of-letters.com
Between 2012 and 2014, I was enrolled in a graduate program for fiction-writing, even though my background and my subject-matter made me a fairly poor fit for this kind of program.| www.woman-of-letters.com