The complete tales of Uncle Remus

Compiled by Richard Chase; with illustrations by Arthur Burdett Frost. [et al.]

ISBN 10: 0618154299 / ISBN 13: 9780618154296

Published by Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., c1983., 1983

About this Item

ISBN 0618154299. Hardcover copy in fine condition with fine condition dustwrapper. Later printing. Tight clean copy. Paint Room last aisle.

Seller Inventory # 2005006

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The complete tales of Uncle Remus
• Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., c1983.
• Publication Date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0618154299
• ISBN 13: 9780618154296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics

About this title

Synopsis

A classic book compiling the complete tales from eight books, with the original illustrations. 

It’s been more than a hundred years since the publication of the first Uncle Remus book, and it was in 1955 that all of the delightful and inimitable tales of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and Brer Wolf were gathered together in one volume. All of the animal tales from eight books are here, along with the illustrations which originally accompanied them.

Any fan of folklore and mythology will treasure this edition. 

About the Author

After the first book appeared in 1880, Joel Chandler Harris was deluged with letters from readers all over the country asking for more stories of Brer Rabbit and his friends--so for the remaining years of his life he collected and wrote them. Richard Chase, noted folklorist and author of Jack Tales and Grandfather Tales, compiled and edited the volume after Harris’s death, and his occasional footnotes and word definitions contribute to our understanding of the dialect. Chase’s belief in the importance of folktales and Harris’s work is summed up in his foreword: "These tales grew up in the soil of our nation. They came from the soul of a people. They endure."