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Nights with Uncle Remus (Penguin Classics)
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Nights with Uncle Remus (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2003

by Harris, Joel Chandler; Bickley, Bruce [Introduction]; Bickley, John [Introduction];

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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 Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the distinct voices of four slave storytellers, indispensable tales like "The Moon in the Mill-Pond" and other Brer Rabbit stories have inspired writers from Mark Twain to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helped revolutionize modern children's literature and folktale collecting.

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  • Title Nights with Uncle Remus (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Harris, Joel Chandler; Bickley, Bruce [Introduction]; Bickley, John [Introduction];
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-10-28
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0142437662_used
  • ISBN 9780142437667 / 0142437662
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.04 x 0.69 in (19.61 x 12.80 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals, African American men
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003050438
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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 Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the distinct voices of four slave storytellers, indispensable tales like "The Moon in the Mill-Pond" and other Brer Rabbit stories have inspired writers from Mark Twain to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helped revolutionize modern children's literature and folktale collecting.

From the publisher

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


Bruce Bickley is professor of English at Florida State University and the author of six books on Joel Chandler Harris.


John Bickley is a fiction editor, essayist, and Ph.D. candidate in medieval English literature at Florida State University.

About the author

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

Bruce Bickley is professor of English at Florida State University and the author of six books on Joel Chandler Harris.