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Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of black folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia's West End, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books.Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States blacks. Many of the stories are didactic, 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.The stories are told in Harris' version of a Deep South slave dialect. The genre of stories is the trickster tale. The term "uncle" was a patronizing, familiar and often racist title reserved by whites for elderly black men in the South, which is considered by some to be pejorative and offensive. At the time of Harris' publication, his work was praised for its ability to capture plantation negro dialect. (Quote from wikipedia.org)About the AuthorJoel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 - July 3, 1908) was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia who wrote the Uncle Remus stories, including Uncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. (1880), Nights with Uncle Remus (1881 & 1882), Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892), and Uncle Remus and the Little Boy (1905).The stories, based on the African-American oral storytelling tradition, were revolutionary in their use of dialect and in featuring a trickster hero called Br'er ("Brother") Rabbit, who uses his wits against adversity, though his efforts do not always succeed. The frog is the trickster character in

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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Uncle Remus; His Songs and his Sayings, hardcover, 1st Edition thus, 1895, just 4 years after true 1st Edition. xxi + [iii] + 265pp. 'With One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations by A.B.Frost', including tissue-guarded frontispiece and 10 further full page plates collated all present and in excellent order, also beautiful and profuse in-text illustrations. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, discreet copperplate inscription, remarkably clean and free from foxing or browning, hinges somewhat tender and well held. Beautifully bound in original gilt lettered and embossed wide weave red cloth featuring gilt vignette Brer Rabbit to upper, gently rubbed to spine, rounded to lower corners and just beginning to fray to upper corner, not intruding or detracting, top edge bright gilt, rest uncut. A lovely solid copy of this classic of American Literature and a nostalgic delight for reader and collector alike.

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