Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a

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Elizabeth Bennet grows from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead

published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series

your mind and brain

telling ourselves to be grateful

unfolds with ever-increasing speed

she is the author/editor of dozens of wine books

foreign policy that fails to confront the lucrative and lethal arms trade that erodes global security

gorgeously written historical novel about a mother and a daughter in eighteenth-century France

is called in to help the police with the murder of a young mother who has been brutally killed and a pentagram carved in her forehead

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