Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) collected the folktales of Southern African Americans and retold them as classic stories of Uncle Remus, a fictitious old slave who spun stories to a boy from “the big house of a plantation.” He wrote five books...
Was macht diesen Klassiker der Weltliteratur so unsterblich? Es sind die Abenteuer der beiden Jungen, dargestellt mit einer köstlichen und trockenen, humoristischen Erzählweise, die uns in einer wunderbaren Warmherzigkeit an den Ort des...
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing...