Product Description

The iconic abolitionist novel-in a striking new package

By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe explores society's failures and asks: "What is it to be a moral human being?" This is a powerful, triumphant work that is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46196 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Customer Reviews

Powerful
At 59-years old, I've crossed paths with this book my entire life. This year, I finally decided to sit down and read it. Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing style is typical of her era and might be considered awkward over 150 years after she wrote this book. Still, the story is powerful and its message will continue to endure the test of time. Closer to the horrors of the holocaust, we are apt to associate the phrase "Lest We Forget" with that horribly inhuman experience in mankind's history. I am compelled to tell you -- the potential reader -- those same words, "Read this book Lest We Forget." Certainly relevant mid-century in 1850, today, it makes no difference whether the subject of Stowe's books were African slaves, European Jews, or Cheyenne Indians. This is a story of how the human mind can wander to places where it justifies its undignified acts, even to the nth degree, yet still one man triumphs, and it only takes one to move the world in the right direction. Read this book "Lest We Forget."