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Working at a plantation in his youth, Joel Chandler Harris found that much of his shyness disappeared in the slave QTLYters, and his background as the illegitimate son of an Irish immigrant helped fuse a close bond with the slaves. The language of his new friends and the African-American animal tales they shared later became the inspiration for Joel’s beloved Uncle Remus stories. When Harris recorded the many Brer Rabbit stories from the African-American oral tradition, little did he know that it would revolutionize children’s literature. As an adult, Harris committed to healing post-Civil War America, stressing regional and racial reconciliation during and after the Reconstruction era.

Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. Harris wanted to show that life in the Southern United States was hard and that they struggled a lot. The term that comes along with this is "folk uncanny". Harris wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. These stories were written in a dialect that represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture. It is for this choice of framing that his collection has led to controversy.

Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from southern African Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and Jean de La Fontaine's stories. Uncle Remus is a kindly old freedman who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him.Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect that represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture. Source: Wikipedia

The Uncle Remus tales are African-American trickster stories about the exploits of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and other creatures. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who passes on the folktales to children gathered around him. These animal stories, songs, and oral folklore were collected from African-Americans in the southern United States, and the stories are written to represent a Deep South dialect.

Joel Chandler Harris was one of the most famous and beloved of all American story tellers. One of the most colorful characters he ever created was Uncle Remus, who spun endless series of delightful stories of animals for the eager children who clustered around his knee.Here are some of Uncle Remus’ best and most beloved stories. Many of these stories of Brer Rabbit and his friends Brer Fox, Brer Bear and other members of the animal kingdom have so endeared themselves to generations of children that today they are truly a part of the American heritage.The story of the Wonderful Tar Baby is only one of the many famous tales in this sparkling collection whose wit and wisdom will capture the affection of every reader who has not yet enjoyed this great book.

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."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

- Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, Joel Chandler Harris' delightful collection of animal characters and songs and sayings told by Uncle Remus, a kindly old former slave, has entertained readers young and old for well over a century. - Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's modern readers as they would have been when first published well over a century ago, the stories are some of the great works of American literature and continue to be widely read and studied throughout the world.- This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text.