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DOWN THE RIVER.

The New Yorker

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The best-selling American novel of the nineteenth century, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe, does not quite go away, much as many Americans, from black militants to white aesthetes, might wish it. Withina year of its publication, in March of 1852, it had sold three hundred thousand copies, in a country one-thirteenth its present size and--in a surprising show of Victorian globalization--more than two million in the rest of the world. Ten years later, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln allegedly greeted its diminutive author in ...

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