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/ˈəŋkəl rˈiməs/ Listen

Uncle Remus

noun

The fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880.

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... a preface for this new edition of my first book—to advance from behind the curtain, as it were, and make a fresh bow to the public that has dealt with Uncle Remus in so gentle and generous a fashion. For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book. There have been other editions—how many I do not remember—but this is to be an ...

— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris

... consisted almost exclusively of the fascinating repertoire of Uncle Remus. Indeed, to know the charm of that chronicle is reserved to the man or woman whose childhood dates from the ante bellum period, and who ...

— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden

Words linked to "Uncle Remus" : fictitious character, fictional character, character