The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus

King James version of the Bible, Milton's Paradise Lost, Madison Hamilton Jefferson, Homer's works, the Sayings of Confuscius, Aesop's Fables, Don Quixote, Walt Whitman's poems, Shakespeare, Tolkien's works, Victor Hugo --- and Joel Chandler Harris certainly belongs in this firmament. No literate American can claim to be fully educated without having heard and read aloud these stories.

These were my favorite childhood characters ....Very glad to have found this familiar book....good read for your children ..super fast shipping...

Though there are many whom would find this piece of literature offensive, hurtful and rightfully so, I feel the stories are some of the best in any book I've ever seen. It is a compilation of many short Stories written by the author. We should not forget our history folks as well as how the stories can still be seen today in the parents who are too involved with the things they are wanting to do or because of circumstance have to do. The children then have to find love and comfort in others and who better than someone as warm hearted and caring as Uncle Remus. A Must Read

This 65+ year old book is like new. Regretfully, never read 😔. That won’t be the case for long as I have already begun. Glad I got it before it was cast into the prohibited book burn pile and gave it safe haven in my sanctuary library 😁.

You have made my day too! :)

I bought this probably fifteen years ago and was astonished to see it come up on my list of purchases to review. It must be a message from above, so I figured I'd best take it seriously and write a review.

Being a PC kind of guy, I'm well aware that there's been a ton of controversy about this type of book and certainly Uncle Remus in particular. I understand the issues, but take a little exception in this case.

Joel Chandler Harris was a master of taking spoken dialect and putting it into readable form. In my opinion, in doing this with the Uncle Remus stories, he helped to preserve a particular Black rural dialect that one rarely hears any more. We shouldn't criticize its quirky grammar nor its homespun roots -- we should celebrate its liveliness, its clever turns of phrase and down-home folksiness -- such a contrast to how we converse in this new millennium.

But it goes beyond the joy of being able to read oral stories on the printed page, while learning to appreciate the twists and turns of this rich dialect. There is much folk wisdom to be gleaned from these tales. Keep in mind they were a clever generational way of conveying morals and attitudes that White overseers were meant to never hear. Trickster animals have a long history in the folk tales of oppressed peoples: Africans and indigenous North and South Americans are examples. Br'er Rabbit is perhaps the best known of these -- and NOBODY gets over on him!

His inevitable victories, the sly stratagems by which he so often achieves them, and the ways in which his powerful, smug, self-important adversaries are vanquished and humiliated thereby, teach life lessons that are all the more effective for being conveyed "on the down low", laid between the lines, as it were.

Harris' intent was to memorialize these tales so that they wouldn't be forgotten, and he does so with a skill and finesse unmatched in American folk literature. We would do well to keep books like these on our shelves.

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