| Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings Contributor(s): Harris, Joel Chandler (Author), Hemenway, Robert (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140390146 ISBN-13: 9780140390148 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1982 Annotation: Presents the legends, songs, and sayings of Uncle Remus, following the text of the first edition of Joel Chandler Harris' attempt to record traditional black stories of his time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 813.4 |
| LCCN: 82007482 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.21" W x 7.76" (0.35 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |