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For more than a hundred years, the tales of Joel Chandler Harris have entertained and influenced both readers and writers. Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Harris's most popular narratives, featuring African American trickster tales, etiological myths, Sea... Read Full Overview

It had been raining all day so that Uncle Remus found it impossible to go out. The storm had begun, the old man declared, just as the chickens were crowing for day, and it had continued almost without intermission. The dark gray clouds had blotted out the sun, and the leafless... Read Full Overview

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 - July 3, 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... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Nights With Uncle Remus is a story-book dearly loved by children. Besides that, it is an important contribution to the study of Afro-American folk-lore, and through many years of popularity it has carried a long and learned Introduction, of great interest to students but rather... Read Full Overview

Nights With Uncle Remus is a story book dearly loved by children. Besides that, it is an important contribution to the study of Afro American folk lore, and through many years of popularity it has carried a long and learned Introduction, of great interest to students but rather... Read Full Overview

Nights with Uncle Remus. Myths and legends of the old plantation (1911). This book, "Nights with Uncle Remus", by Joel Chandler Harris, is a replication of a book originally published before 1911. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in... Read Full Overview

Nights with Uncle Remus. Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation. This book, "Nights with Uncle Remus", by Joel Chandler Harris, is a replication of a book originally published before 1883. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form... Read Full Overview

Old Uncle Remus tells about the time Brer Fox grabs ahold of the horse's tail and hangs on . . . when Brer Rabbit jumps up and hollers out:

"'Hold 'im down, Brer Fox You got 'im now, sho' Hold yo' grip and hold 'im down ' says he.

"De Hoss,... Read Full Overview