Joel Chandler Harris

Short Fiction

• “Jacky-My-Lantern” (1880)
• A Case of Measles (1880)
• A Confession (1880)
• A Plantation Witch (1880)
• A Story About the Little Rabbits (1880)
• A Story of the War (1880)
• A Temperance Reformer (1880)
• As a Murderer (1880)
• As a Weather Prophet (1880)
• As to Education (1880)
• His Practical View of Things (1880)
• How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail (1880)
• How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat (1880)
• How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust (1880)
• How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox (1880)
• In the Role of a Tartar (1880)
• Jeems Rober’son’s Last Illness (1880)
• Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit (1880)
• Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog (1880)
• Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs (1880)
• Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business (1880)
• Mr. Fox Goes A-Hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game (1880)
• Mr. Fox Is “Outdone” by Mr. Buzzard (1880)
• Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized (1880)
• Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin (1880)
• Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear (1880) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear (1931)
• Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match at Last (1880)
• Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox (1880)
• Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again (1880)
• Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter (1880)
• Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene (1880)
• Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength (1880)
• Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure (1880) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Brer Wolf Makes a Mistake (1880)
• Old Mr. Rabbit, He’s a Good Fisherman (1880)
• Race Improvement (1880)
• That Deceitful Jug (1880)
• The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf (1880) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Awful Fate of Brer Wolf (1880)
• The Emigrants (1880)
• The End of Mr. Bear (1880)
• The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow (1880) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Fate of Little Jack Sparrow (1880)
• The Florida Watermelon (1880)
• The Fourth of July (1880)
• The Old Man’s Troubles (1880)
• The Phonograph (1880)
• The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox (1880)
• The Story of the Deluge, and How It Came About (1880)
• The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (1880) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Uncle Remus and the Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (2015)
• Turnip Salad as a Text (1880)
• Uncle Remus (excerpts) (1880)
• Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey (1880)
• Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy (1880)
• Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert (1880)
• Uncle Remus with the Toothache (1880)
• Uncle Remus’s Church Experience (1880)
• Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail (1880)
• Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace (1880)
• Why the Negro Is Black (1880)
• A Ghost Story (1883)
• The Man and His Boots (1892)
• A French Tar-Baby (1893)
• “Keen-Point,” “Cob-Handle,” and “Butch” (1894)
• A Singing-Match (1894)
• A Story of the River (1894)
• Brother Terrapin’s Fiddle-String (1894)
• How Brother Bear’s Hair Was Combed (1894)
• Mr. Rabbit as a Rain-Maker (1894)
• Mr. Thimblefinger’s Friends (1894)
• Mr. Thimblefinger’s Queer Country (1894)
• Mrs. Meadows Resumes Her Story (1894)
• The Bewitched Huntsman (1894)
• The Grandmother of the Dolls (1894)
• The Ladder of Lions (1894)
• The Strawberry-Girl (1894)
• The Talking-Saddle (1894)
• The Talking-Saddle and the Thief (1894)
• The Three Ivory Bobbins (1894)
• The Witch of the Well (1894)
• Two Queer Stories (1894)
• Aaron Sees the Signal (1897)
• Between Midnight and Dawn (1897)
• Chunky Riley Sees a Queer Sight (1897)
• Prelude (Aaron in the Wildwoods) (1897)
• The Apparition the Fox Hunters Saw (1897)
• The Happenings of a Night (1897)
• The Hunt Begins (1897)
• The Hunt Ends (1897)
• The Little Master (1897)
• The Little Master Says Good Night (1897)
• The Problem That Timoleon Presented (1897)
• The Secrets of the Swamp (1897)
• The Upsetting of Mr. Gossett (1897)
• What Chunky Riley Saw and Heard (1897)
• What the Patrollers Saw and Heard (1897)
• The Late Mr. Watkins of Georgia (1898)
• Brother Rabbit’s Cradle (1905)
• Brer Rabbit (1945)
• Brer Rabbit and the Spewter Slutter Ghost (1966) [only as by Joel C. Harris]

Essays

• Introduction (The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus) (1880)
• Introduction (Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings) (1880)
• Plantation Proverbs (1880)
• Preface and Dedication to the New Edition (The Tales from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings) (1896) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Preface and Dedication to the New Edition (Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings) (1921)

Collections

• The Tales from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1895)
  • Variant: Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (2018)
• The Tales from Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation (1883)
• The Tales from Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told After Dark (1889)
• The Tales from Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character (1892)
• Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There (1894)
• Mr. Rabbit at Home: A Sequel to Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1895)
• The Story of Aaron (So Named), the Son of Ben Ali: Told by His Friends and Acquaintances (1896)
• Aaron in the Wildwoods (1897)
• The Tales from Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation (1905)
• The Tales from Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1907)
• The Tales of Uncle Remus and the Little Boy (1910)
• The Tales from Uncle Remus Returns (1918)
• The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus (2002)

Poetry

• A Plantation Chant (1880)
• A Plantation Serenade (1880)
• Camp-Meeting Song (1880)
• Christmas Play-Song (1880)
• Corn-Shucking Song (1880)
• Plantation Play-Song (1880)
• Revival Hymn (1880)
• The Big Bethel Church (1880)
• The Plough-Hands’ Song (1880)
• Time Goes by Turns (1880)

Chapbooks

• Brer Rabbit (1945)