On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy’s Adventures During the War

The enduring fame of Joel Harris as a skillful storyteller had its beginning with the publication of the first of his enchanting Uncle Remus stories. These and other local color tales were written to sound as if they were being told to a group of small children on a winter night beside a blazing fireplace of a middle Georgia farmhouse. And ever since his stories first appeared in print, it has yet to be resolved who enjoys them the most--a child or the adult reading them aloud.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1845-1908) was an immensely popular journalist, folklorist, and fiction writer. At the time of Harris’s death, only Mark Twain could claim a wider following among American authors.