The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

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Uncle Remusappears in All

Uncle Remus has apparently been with Miss Sally's family for many years. In the story of "Brother Fox Catches Mr. Horse," he begins by saying that he'd watched Miss Sally - the lady of the house and the first little boy's mother - rush around, wiping away dust that wasn't there and plumping pillows that didn't need anything. Uncle Remus says he knows Miss Sally well enough to know that...

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Joel Chandler Harris Biographies (6)

Joel Chandler Harris

370 words, approx. 2 pages

American writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) used folklore, fiction, dialect, and other devices of local color to picture both black and white Georgians under slavery and Reconstruction.Joel Chand... Read more

Joel Chandler Harris

6,743 words, approx. 23 pages

The first of the five reputations that Joel Chandler Harris earned was as a comic "paragrapher" for Georgia newspapers. Reviewers and critics from his time to ours have observed, however, that Harris'... Read more

Joel Chandler Harris

9,182 words, approx. 31 pages

Joel Chandler Harris , better known today as the talented Georgian folklorist and creator of Uncle Remus who recounted numerous tales of plantation life, was first and foremost a newspaper journalist.... Read more

Joel Chandler Harris

10,818 words, approx. 37 pages

In 1882, according to Mark Twain, a group of children who were invited to the New Orleans home of George Washington Cable to meet the newly famous author of "Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby" were doub... Read more

Joel Chandler Harris

6,990 words, approx. 24 pages

Joel Chandler Harris is remembered by many readers as a collector of black folklore in the Uncle Remus stories, an amanuensis for slaves whose forced illiteracy prevented them from writing down their ... Read more

Joel Chandler Harris

3,673 words, approx. 13 pages

In his day Joel Chandler Harris was one of America's most popular authors, known throughout the world for his humorous Negro folktales told through the dialect of kindly old "Uncle Remus." Harris ha... Read more

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