Who wrote the novel which the terms Tom show and Uncle Tom are derived from?
Tom show Tom show is a general term for any play or musical based (often only loosely) on the 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel attempts to depict the harsh reality of slavery. Due to the weak copyright laws at the time, a number of unauthorized plays based on the novel were staged for decades, many of them mocking the novel's strong characters and social message, and leading to the pejorative term "Uncle Tom".
Adaptations of Moby-Dick "Moby-Dick" is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville that describes the voyage of the whaleship "Pequod", led by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the whale Moby-Dick. There have been a number of adaptations of "Moby-Dick" in various media.