Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings - Softcover

Harris, Joel Chandler

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9781479436552: Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings

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ISBN 10: 1479436550 ISBN 13: 9781479436552

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2018

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Joel Chandler Harris was one of the most famous and beloved of all American story tellers. One of the most colorful characters he ever created was Uncle Remus, who spun endless series of delightful stories of animals for the eager children who clustered around his knee.

Here are some of Uncle Remus’ best and most beloved stories. Many of these stories of Brer Rabbit and his friends Brer Fox, Brer Bear and other members of the animal kingdom have so endeared themselves to generations of children that today they are truly a part of the American heritage.

The story of the Wonderful Tar Baby is only one of the many famous tales in this sparkling collection whose wit and wisdom will capture the affection of every reader who has not yet enjoyed this great book.

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About the Author:

Joel Chandler Harris (1848 - 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880-1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process. James Weldon Johnson called the Uncle Remus collection "the greatest body of folklore America has produced."

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