Uncle Remus
his songs and his sayings
by Joel Chandler Harris · first published 1800
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Thirty-four of the tales told by the old Georgian slave, featuring Brer B'ar, Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, and their animal friends.
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on “Ask HN: Good books written before ~1900?” ↗I've moved enough times to have thinned my book collection down quite a bit. Books that I can't quit, the original "The Boy Mechanic" books, "The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus", "Jingo Django" (I have quite of few of Sid Fleischman's books, actually), a set of "The Book of a Thousands Nights and a Night" (the Arabian Nights) ... to name a few.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗I know Disney pretends that "Song of the South" never existed, but Joel Chandler Harris' "The Tales of Uncle Remus" etc., includes a few stories where the animals meet their ends. Disney passed on those tales of course (leaving them as well out of the Disney book that followed the film and included additional Harris…
on “The original “Bambi”” ↗…Over the past so many years though a lot of books on archive.org (for example) are borrow only (and I like cultivating an offline-life). Here's an odd, maybe edge-case example. Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories are clearly outside copyright. It's for sale on Amazon (the first link when I searched, becauseofcourseitis!) but I think we all know that the "copyright" on these published editions is only going…
on “List of DRM-Free Bookshops” ↗I first heard of these reading Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories. He called them "Wull-er-de-Wust" [1]. [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24430/24430-h/24430-h.htm#V
on “Ghostly swamp will-O'-the-wisps may be explained by science” ↗…before they start middle school (junior high). When mine were young, I read to them every night before bed and they seemed to really enjoy it. We worked through, believe it or not, The Lord of the Rings, Uncle Remus stories, the Harry Potter series, The Hobbit, most of the Andrew Lang Fairie books, etc. But once they got past age 12, school got "real", smart phones landed in their hands and fairyland faded away.
on “Regrets of the Dying (2010)” ↗…just kept going down hill—one after the other. As the girls were growing up we worked through all the Harry Potter books, a half-dozen of the "colored Fairy" books (edited by Andrew Lang), plenty of Uncle Remus tales, the "Little House" books and a number of Sid Fleischman books… Those were magical years. Only when homework arrived did the reading hour finally come to a close. :-(
on “Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High” ↗