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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...

"Anyone interested in southern literature should be grateful for the reissue of Joel Chandler Harris.... Bickley has done an admirable job of bringing 'the whole Joel Chandler Harris into view.'"--Southern Literary Journal "Bickley's approach and his results provide a new understanding of one of Georgia's most important late-nineteenth century personalities, and fully deserves this new paperback edition."--Georgia Historical Quarterly