Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told After Dark

xxi, 265 pp. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Some of the images are a bit questionable by today's standards. Joel Chandler Harris created the fictional narrator Uncle Remus, whose stories were intended to depict the struggles of plantation life in the American South, so that makes a certain amount of sense, but does not make them any less problematic. A number of Uncle Remus stories have inspired adaptations to film and television, including Walt Disney's 1946 'Song of the South.' This volume includes: Daddy Jake, the Runaway; How a Witch Was Caught; The Little Boy and His Dogs; How Black Snake Caught the Wolf; Why the Guineas Stay Awake; How the Terrapin Was Taught to Fly; The Creature with No Claws; Uncle Remus's Wonder Story; The Rattlesnake and the Polecat; How the Birds Talk; The Foolish Woman; The Adventures of Simon and Susanna; Brother Rabbit and the Gingercakes; Brother Rabbit's Courtship.