Nights with Uncle Remus (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Harris, Joel Chandler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142437662 ISBN 13: 9780142437667

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142437662
• ISBN 13: 9780142437667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384