Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin transformed American society through it’s exploration of the realities of slavery in the American south.