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Oct 28, 2003 | ISBN 9780142437667 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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Oct 28, 2003 | ISBN 9780142437667 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Oct 28, 2003 | ISBN 9781101010402 | Middle Grade (8-12)
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.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.
Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) authored 185 Uncle Remus tales, as well as other short fiction, novels, and children’s stories.
Nights with Uncle RemusIntroduction: Folklore Performance and the Legacy of Joel Chandler Harris
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text, Harris Editions, and Major Harris Collections
Nights with Uncle Remus
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