Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings - Paperback

by Joel Chandler Harris (Author), Robert Hemenway (Introduction by)

The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in the nineteenth-century South is portrayed as it appeared to Georgia-born Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus's "Legends of the Old Plantation."

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Author Biography

Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) authored 185 Uncle Remus tales, as well as other short fiction, novels, and children's stories.