The pious enslaved man Tom is sold south and endures the brutality of Simon Legree, while the Harris family flees toward freedom, in Stowe's landmark anti-slavery novel.
Books mentioned in Uncle Tom's Cabin (3)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “…"keeping-room," as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books,…”
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “…it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.”
The Ancient History by Charles Rollin: “* _The Ancient History_, ten volumes (1730-1738), by the French historian Charles Rollin (1661-1741).”
Books that mention Uncle Tom's Cabin (8)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “say to us, as old Chloe did in _Uncle Tom_, 'Tink ob yer marcies, chillen!'”
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois: “This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in “Uncle Tom,” came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.”
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs: “This honorable gentleman would not have voted for the Fugitive Slave Law, as did the senator in “Uncle Tom's Cabin;””
The Virginian by Owen Wister: “Howells saw many Silas Laphams with his own eyes; else UNCLE TOM’S CABIN were not historical.”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “Harriet Beecher Stowe collected material from him for Uncle Tom's Cabin; Grant's memoir sales later rivaled "that other literary sensation of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin."”
Esther Waters by George Moore: “Peter Parley's Annual," "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands," "Children of the Abbey," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Lamb's "Tales of Shakespeare's Plays," a Cooking Book, "Roda's Mission of Love," the Holy Bible and the Common Prayer Book.”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “The two great American novels of the oppressed, Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Grapes of Wrath, are saved from that minatory coldness by the authors' passion for justice...”
Smoke by Ivan Turgenev: “Well, he was once at some friend's house in Paris, and suddenly in comes Madame Beecher Stowe--you know, _Uncle Tom's Cabin_.”