Books with author Joel Harris

Shan strives to be a bounty hunter, but first, she must master her rage.Shan is making a life of her own as an apprentice hunter, catching criminals in the name of the Heardnebbian Order. But if she wants recognition for her skills, she must first gain control over the violent power that keeps her teetering on the brink of insanity.She seeks assistance from her Master, only to find him on the threshold of death, carrying the burden of a grave mistake. He failed to catch one of the most wanted murderers and left a piece of the Goddess of Dark in a prince hidden at an academy.Prince Thayne is left reeling after a deadly battle with enemies of the throne. Breaking free of the grip the dark celestial being has on him has proven to be challenging and her energy is only getting stronger and more chaotic.When Thayne encounters Shan they both realize they have something in common: the celestial grip the gods’ have on them. And the empire’s enemies are hungry for that power. It’s up to Shan and Thayne – and a few of their friends – to protect the realm from falling into darkness while keeping their turbulent power from destroying them from the inside out. Hunter Shan: Rising Storm is the second book in the dramatic YA high-fantasy Prince Noralv series. If you like ancient magic, dark forces, and tales of heroic adventure, then you'll love JT Harris's captivating novel.Buy Hunter Shan: Rising Storm to do battle with dark magic today!

The author's dialect and stereotyped characters are now seen as racist and patronizing toward African-Americans. When they were written and first published, they were not seen as racist by many. The author maintained they were an accurate account of the stories he heard from slaves when he worked on a plantation and the dialogue represented a Deep South Gullah dialect Many of these stories have direct equivalents in the African oral tradition.

This full-color facsimile of the 1907 edition is taken from a copy in a family library. Original © 1906, Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) and © 1907, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.Each chapter begins with a transcription of the text (for ease of reading) followed by the original illustrations and text.CONTENTS:The Creeturs Go to the BarbecueBrer Rabbit’s FrolicBrother Bear’s Big HouseBrer Rabbit Treats the Creeturs to a RaceBrer Rabbit’s Flying TripBrer Rabbit and the Gold MineBrer Rabbit Get Brer Fox a HossBrer Rabbit Finds the Moon in the Mill PondHow Mr. Lion Lost His WoolHow Brer Rabbit Got a HouseBrer Rabbit and the Partridge NestAuthor Joel Chandler Harris “became familiar with the lore and dialects of the plantation slave. He established a reputation as a brilliant humorist and writer of dialect while employed on newspapers” in Georgia. His “Uncle Remus stories won for Harris a secure place in American literature.” His work “preserved a significant collections or oral tales” from the African American culture. (Source: Encyclopedia Britannica) “Remus' stories featured a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit (Brother Rabbit), who used his wits against adversity, though his efforts did not always succeed. Br'er Rabbit is a direct interpretation of Yoruba tales of Hare, though some others posit Native American influences as well. The scholar Stella Brewer Brookes asserts, "Never has the trickster been better exemplified than in the Br'er Rabbit of Harris." Br'er Rabbit was accompanied by friends and enemies, such as Br'er Fox, Br'er Bear, Br'er Terrapin, and Br'er Wolf. The stories represented a significant break from the fairy tales of the Western tradition: instead of a singular event in a singular story, the critters on the plantation existed in an ongoing community saga…” (Source: Wikipedia) “… Julius Lester, a black folklorist and university professor, sees the Uncle Remus stories as important records of black folklore…. The author Ralph Ellison was positive about Harris' work: ‘Aesop and Uncle Remus had taught us that comedy is a disguised form of philosophical instruction; and especially when it allows us to glimpse the animal instincts lying beneath the surface of our civilized affectations.’ … Children's literature analyst John Goldthwaite argues that the Uncle Remus tales are "irrefutably the central event in the making of modern children's story.” (Source: Wikipedia)

Brer Rabbit is the main character of the Uncle Remus stories, a likable character prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a lump of tar and puts clothing on it. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the "tar baby" amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as Tar Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and becomes stuck.Br'er Rabbit is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social mores as he sees fit.The stories have inspired at least three feature films. The first and best known is Walt Disney's 'Song of the South,' released in 1946. The film was a combination of live action and animation. Ralph Bakshi's 1975 film 'Coonskin' is a satire of the Disney film that adapts the Uncle Remus stories to a contemporary Harlem setting. 'The Adventures of Brer Rabbit' is a 2006 direct-to video production which has hip-hop influences. An 'Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit' newspaper strip ran from October 14, 1945, through December 31, 1972.Children's literature analyst John Goldthwaite argues that the Uncle Remus tales are "irrefutably the central event in the making of modern children's story." Harris's influence on British children's writers such as Kipling, Milne, Potter, Burgess and Blyton is substantial. His influence on modernism is less overt, but also evident in the works of Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Faulkner.All ten Uncle Remus Brer Rabbit adventures are collected here:BRER RABBIT’S FROLICBROTHER BEAR’S BIG HOUSEBRER RABBIT TREATS THE CREETURS TO A RACEBRER RABBIT’S FLYING TRIPBRER RABBIT AND THE GOLD MINEBRER RABBIT GETS BRER FOX A HOSSBRER RABBIT FINDS THE MOON IN THE MILL PONDHOW MR. LION LOST HIS WOOLHOW BRER RABBIT GOT A HOUSEBRER RABBIT AND THE PARTRIDGE NEST

The Atari Video Computer System, aka VCS, later renamed the Atari 2600 after its model number (CX2600), was the first popular programmable home video game console.The VCS wasn't the first in any area except one: it was the first really popularprogrammable home video game console. Sales of the VCS were gigantic. Atari would ultimately move 30 million units, and the machine remained in production until 1992. It lasted a venerable 15 years, and survived long enough to compete against the SNES. And it did all this with a hardware set that could at best be described as ludicrous. This is generally a book of reviews of interesting Atari VCS games, but there are some important caveats. For inclusion, the most playable version of the game has to be for the VCS. For example, the VCS port of Missile Command is a very good game. But the arcade version is much better: it has three bases instead of one adding a touch more strategy to it, it has missile "matchbooks" that let you use one explosion to touch off others, there are more and more varied types of enemies, and it's generally just a better game overall. You're about as likely to be able to play the VCS or Arcade versions these days, so, why not play the arcade one? This also rules out a host of arcade conversions. In a few cases, the stars of programmer skill and hardware capability combine in such a way that the version on the lowly Atari VCS, a machine with 128 bytes of RAM and ludicrously primitive display capability, is actually a competitive version, and sometimes it is superior in one or more ways. Two games this is true for is Asteroids (whose game variations provide interesting ways to play the arcade doesn't try to match) and Space Invaders (the two-player co-op versions of which make it actually more interesting than the arcade).This is a book of such games. Reasons to scour eBay for tapes, or else drag out an emulator. Gameplay doesn't go obsolete, but some games do become, ah, less accessible over time. Here are 21 that are still fun.

The volume containing an instalment of thirty-four negro legends, which was given to the public three years ago, was accompanied by an apology for both the matter and the manner. Perhaps such an apology is more necessary now than it was then; but the warm reception given to the book on all sides—by literary critics, as well as by ethnologists and students of folk-lore, in this country and in Europe—has led the author to believe that a volume embodying everything, or nearly everything, of importance in the oral literature of the negroes of the Southern States, would be as heartily welcomed. The thirty-four legends in the first volume were merely selections from the large body of plantation folk-lore familiar to the author from his childhood, and these selections were made less with an eye to their ethnological importance than with a view to presenting certain quaint and curious race characteristics, of which the world at large had had either vague or greatly exaggerated notions. The first book, therefore, must be the excuse and apology for the present volume. Indeed, the first book made the second a necessity; for, immediately upon its appearance, letters and correspondence began to pour in upon the author from all parts of the South. Much of this correspondence was very valuable, for it embodied legends that had escaped the author’s memory, and contained hints and suggestions that led to some very interesting discoveries. The result is, that the present volume is about as complete as it could be made under the circumstances, though there is no doubt of the existence of legends and myths, especially upon the rice plantations, and Sea Islands of the Georgia and Carolina seacoast, which, owing to the difficulties that stand in the way of those who attempt to gather them, are not included in this collection. It is safe to say, however, that the best and most characteristic of the legends current on the rice plantations and Sea Islands, are also current on the cotton plantations. Indeed, this has been abundantly verified in the correspondence of those who kindly consented to aid the author in his efforts to secure stories told by the negroes on the seacoast. The great majority of legends and stories collected and forwarded by these generous collaborators had already been collected among the negroes on the cotton plantations and uplands of Georgia and other Southern States. This will account for the comparatively meagre contribution which Daddy Jack, the old African of the rice plantations, makes towards the entertainment of the little boy.

Excerpt from Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old PlantationTold By Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation was written by Joel Chandler Harris. This is a 343 page book, containing 62249 words and 58 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation written by an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris. This book is one of many works by him. It was published in 1905. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy reading this book.

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – 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. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.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 forbidding in aspect to youthful readers. In this new edition, which has been prepared especially for children, and illustrated in colors by an artist who knows how to please them as well as their elders, the Introduction has been omitted, but the stories and their charming setting have been left intact.* Digitally remastered color illustrations (kid-friendly)* Clean table of contents for easy browsing* Fonts optimized for display on Kindle and other e-readers

* Illustrated with the original drawings"Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit" is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States blacks. Many of the stories aredidactic, much like those of Aesop's fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. Uncle Remus is a kindly old slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him.Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed byBr'er Fox and Br'er Bear.