Product Description
Tales of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer B'ar, Brer Wolf, and others told by Uncle Remus are gathered together in one volume. "These stories are as American as the stars and stripes, even though they have some of their origins in Africa." -- Saturday Review ... Read more

Customer Reviews (29)

Complete tales completely unable to read
Nice book and good memories of the stories. I couldn't read it to my son in any way that made sense to either of us since it's written as Uncle Remus would speak and I thought I'd be able to get the lingo for an authentic reading experience, but it ended up as mostly gibberish that I'm hoping grandpa might have better luck with the translation. Probably very entertaining if read correctly, but I couldn't do it so will be looking for a more neutral or "vanilla" rendition.

Not what I expected at all - very hard to read!
While I can appreciate the author's attept to preserve the colloquial expressions of the era, and most especially of the "Negro Speech" of the time, this has rendered the entire book to be virtually unreadable. It is not unlike attempting to read "Olde Englishe", except with fewer dialect rules. I found it to be very difficult to the point where the whole book was was pretty useless. If you are looking for readable Folk Tales, I would suggest going to "Best Loved Folktales of the World" by Joanna Cole. This Uncle Remus work was, sadly, a *huge* disappointment for me.

Uncle Remus Review
I was very happy to find all the Remus stories in one book. Very much like "The Complete Sherlock Holmes".

big book
big book with lots of stories that are good.takes a little while to get the words.From the south won't be hard to read at all.

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus - 1955 Edition
Fair price & shipping costs. Product was very dirty, but after all, it was a library book over 50 years old! ... Read more