Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484812093 ISBN 13: 9781484812099

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Uncle Remus - His Songs and His Sayings - By Joel Chandler Harris - "You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far." ~ Uncle Remus Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books.

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."