Uncle Remus Returns

by Joel Chandler Harris

Excerpt from Uncle Remus Returns
The stories included in this volume appeared during 1905-06 in the Metropolitan Magazine. They are told by Uncle Remus, but the little boy who listens to them is the son of the "little boy" of the early volumes. He is visiting his grandmother ("Miss Sally") on the plantation where his father grew up and, in his turn, has become the devoted follower of the old darkey. It was the intention of the author to continue this series and to gather the stories eventually into a fifth volume of Uncle Remus tales. But his editorial duties on the Uncle Remus Magazine absorbed most of the energy of his last two years and the projected volume was not completed.
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210 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1918

About the author

Joel Chandler Harris 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 traditional tales in Central and Southern Africa. The stories, which began appearing in the Atlanta Constitution in 1879, were popular among both Black and White readers in the North and South, not least because they presented an idealized view of race relations soon after the Civil War. The first published Brer Rabbit stories were written by President Theodore Roosevelt's uncle, Robert Roosevelt.

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[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of sarcasm in a novel makes for a wonderful way to show personality faults similar to people we might be acquainted with.