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Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country

By Joel Chandler Harris

2020-10-30 20:57:48

Excerpt from Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There The stories that follow belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, be ... Read more
Excerpt from Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There The stories that follow belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they were negro stories; some are Middle Georgia folklore stories, and no doubt belong to England; and some are merely inventions. They were all written in the midst of daily work on a morning newspaper, - a fact that will account in some measure for their crude setting. Less

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File size1845.059 KB
Print pages302
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1330016619
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Joel Chandler Harris
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Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, G...

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