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Uncle Remus
- His Songs & His Sayings
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's summary
Working at a plantation in his youth, Joel Chandler Harris found that much of his shyness disappeared in the slave QTLYters, and his background as the illegitimate son of an Irish immigrant helped fuse a close bond with the slaves. The language of his new friends and the African-American animal tales they shared later became the inspiration for Joel’s beloved Uncle Remus stories.
When Harris recorded the many Brer Rabbit stories from the African-American oral tradition, little did he know that it would revolutionize children’s literature. As an adult, Harris committed to healing post-Civil War America, stressing regional and racial reconciliation during and after the Reconstruction era.
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Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee -a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction - sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it "a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." This enthralling saga evokes the full color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and every shade in between.
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Love It!
- By Cynthia J. Hakansson on 02-27-09
By: Wayne Caldwell
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Desire Under the Elms
- By: Eugene O'Neill
- Narrated by: Paul Adelstein, Orson Bean, Amy Brenneman, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Eugene O’Neill’s tale of Ephraim Cabot, greedy and hard like the stone walls that surround his farm, the family patriarch brings home his new young bride, Abbie. His grown sons dissaprove; one leaves but the other stays to fight for the family fortune. What follows is a tragedy of epic proportions.
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A raw and modern take on a classic
- By Maria on 08-06-10
By: Eugene O'Neill
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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A gift to be treasured
- By David Shear on 07-09-14
By: Harper Lee
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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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Hang in
- By W.Denis on 07-11-05
By: William Faulkner
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The Trees
- Awakening Land Series, Book 1
- By: Conrad Richter
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Trees is the story of an American family in the wilderness - a family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The time is the end of the 18th century, the wilderness is the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally, The Trees is the story of a girl named Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, raised in the forest far from the rest of humankind, yet growing to realize that the way of the hunter must cede to the way of the tiller of soil.
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A taste of early frontier life
- By dkh5 on 09-11-21
By: Conrad Richter
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- By: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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At great listen
- By Susan on 11-11-08
By: Ernest J. Gaines
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Where the Red Fern Grows
- By: Wilson Rawls
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Since its publication over forty years ago, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dogs has touched millions. A tale of adventure, special friendship and coming-of-age, Where the Red Fern Grows makes for delightful listening. This unabridged production, featuring a moving performance by Anthony Heald, brings this enduring classic to life and makes a powerful story even more unforgettable.
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What a great story!
- By Mary A. on 11-18-03
By: Wilson Rawls
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Old Yeller
- By: Fred Gipson
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn or The Yearling comes along, it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the response it evokes in the reader. Such a tale is Old Yeller; to listen to this eloquently simply story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience.
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Beyond Heartbreaking
- By Gillian on 01-22-16
By: Fred Gipson
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
- A Novel
- By: Peter Troy
- Narrated by: John Keating, Allyson Johnson, Marrie Kreinik, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide.
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Four passionate performances give wings to story
- By Cheimon on 04-26-12
By: Peter Troy
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Sounder
- By: William H. Armstrong
- Narrated by: Avery Brooks
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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When the boy awakens one morning to a sweet-smelling ham on the table, it seems like a blessing. But soon, the sheriff and his deputies come to the house and take the boy's father away in handcuffs. Suddenly the boy must grow up fast in a world that isn't fair, keeping hope alive through the love he has for his father's faithful dog, Sounder. Listeners who enjoy timeless dog stories such as Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows will find much to love in Sounder, even as they listen through tears at times.
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One of my favorite childhood reads
- By Nena on 02-21-08
What listeners say about Uncle Remus
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- Laurel
- 06-24-11
Not a PC Telling
I grew up reading and listening to my mother reading Uncle Remus. It was a pleasure to hear the stories again. BUT... I was surprised to learn how my ear has been trained to the use of the "N" word and that it surprised me. I would suggest that a parent listen to the stories before letting their child hear them ... then explain that some racial words are no longer used although they still appear in older literature. In no way do I suggest that these tales be "cleaned up."
Enjoy the old stories as I did.
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- vikrtain
- 05-27-19
Great Book and Piece of History
I read this book because I was a fan of Song Of the South and Splash Mountain. It is really interesting to see the roots of these adaptations and how they evolved from the original. It is hard to understand, and gets even harder the deeper you go into the book. Also uses inappropriate language such as “The N Word” because it was not offensive back then. I would definitely recommend it to any Disney Fan (Or tales of the Okeeponokee from six flags fan)
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- Bailey Rose
- 08-24-23
Not PC but a Glimpse into History no Less
Please note that these stories have non-PC language but if you know anything about Uncle Remus you knew that already. I grew up with the telling of the tar baby story. It was on a Disney record that I listened to over and over. So I thought I would give the other stories a go too. There were some that I had heard but didn’t know that they were from the Uncle Remus collection and others that I hadn’t heard at all. Overall, this is a piece of history and the author of these stories grew up working on a plantation. It gives a bit of insight into the world like the hymns and other songs from that period. The narration is good and authentic for the time period, I am guessing, but was difficult for me in the beginning. Once I had time to adjust, it was great.
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- Rachel
- 07-09-13
Strange version
Would you try another book from Joel Chandler Harris and/or Robin Field?
This is neither the original Uncle Remus nor the Joel Chandler version. I am not sure what version it is, but it has some very different tellings of the Uncle Remus stories.
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