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Montag, 27. Juli 2015

Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris with illustrations by Milo Winter

Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of  Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels,Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.
He was born in Princeton, Illinois in 1888. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to receive his art training. He wrote and illustrated his first book, Billy Popgun, which he submitted to Houghton Mifflin in 1912. Since then, Winter worked most of his life in Chicago, illustrating for publishers.

On July 20, 1879 an undersized thirty-year-old journalist from Atlanta known as Joe Harris began a journey from relative obscurity to interregional fame. On that day, the Atlanta Constitution published the young copy editor's "Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox as told by
Uncle Remus." Within months, magazines across the country were reprinting his tales, and after more than 1,000 written requests for a collection, the first Uncle Remus book was published in November, 1880. 

At the time, Harris said his purpose was not ethnology, or folklore analysis, but simply documentation. He doubted that his stories and character sketches would have any lasting historical value. He was wrong. ( from http://www.uncleremus.com/ )


 Frontispiece
Uncle Remus and the little boy 






BRER RABBIT'S ASTONISHING PRANK
"HE  TO' DOWN A WHOLE PANEL ER FENCE GITTIN' 'WAY FUM DAR"

BRER RABBIT'S RIDDLE
 "BRER RABBIT TURNT 'ER ALOOSE, EN DOWN SHE COME - KER-SWOSH"



BRER FOX COVETS THE QUILLS
BRER TARRYPIN, PLEASE LEMME GO!

BRER RABBIT TAKES SOME EXERCISE
"AH-YI! YOU OUGHTER AX ME DAT FUS, BRER COON"


BRER WOLF SAYS GRACE
BRER RABBIT FOTCH A WIGGLE, HE DID, EN LIT ON HE FOOTS.


BRER WOLF FALLS A VICTIM
EF YOU GIT ANY MO' SENSE, SON RILEY, YOU'LL BE DE RUINATION EV DE WHOLE SETTLEMENT


THE FIRE -TEST
 DE LITTLE RABS, DEY PROMISE DAT DEY WON'T OPEN DE DO' FER NOBODY

BRER WOLF STILL IN TROUBLE
EN, BLESS GRACIOUS! DEM AR CREETURS RACKED OFF FUM DAR EN LEF' OLE BRER WOLF UND' DAT AR ROCK


HOW WATTLE WEASEL WAS CAUGHT
HE SORTER HUNCH BRER POSSUM IN DE SHORT RIBS, EN AX 'IM HOW HE COME ON
BRER RABBIT AND BRER FOX
I DUNNER W'EN I BIN SO SORRY 'BOUT ANYTHING EZ I IS 'ABOUT BRER FOX NICE LONG TAIL


BRER FOX'S FISH TRAP
 
HE GIT DE FINEST MESS ER FISH YOU MOS' EVER LAID YO' EYES ON






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