Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. New and Revised Edition with One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations. [1920]

"As a storyteller, Uncle Remus is the peer of Scheherazade." -H. E. Krehbiel Uncle Remus' collection of stories are about Br'er Rabbit's pranks and how he outwits the animal foes who threaten his home in the briar patch. Unlike many other collections that contain mostly animal stories with few traces of human life, Uncle Remus relates a world seen from the perspective of both master and slave. He speaks for those who still enjoy "dignity and personhood," as Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes in his Introduction to this edition. The stories have touched generations of readers-as well as musicians, artists, film-makers, playwrights, choreographers, social critics, educators.