Anne Terry White

Two tales from the Arabian Nights, the first relating the seven adventurous voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, the second telling how a young prince twice used a magic horse to carry away the princess he chose to be his wife.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labor. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern...