This project, which began as an attempt to scan Uncle Remus stories and
provide context for them, quickly expanded and developed various offshoots
as new information about Joel Chandler Harris, the author, came to our
attention. Accordingly, the Table of Contents offers several options: users
may look at the stories and analyses, but they also may view non-folklore
tales by Uncle Remus, reviews of the Remus books, illustrations from several
volumes, editor's prefaces, a Harris biography, etc.
The two sets of Remus tales offer the scanned stories themselves and accompanying
editor's commentaries. Visitors can link to the commentaries directly from the story contents
page or from a link at the end of each scanned story. Feel free to read all the stories right in a row, or read each story and then our comment, or skip directly to the comments - whatever suits your taste. The other sections
(biography, prefaces, and so forth) have one all-encompassing editor's
commentary on the main page instead of a linked commentary for each item.
Each sub-page, be it a story, preface, or whatever, will have a series
of links at the very bottom: back to the main page, back to the table of
contents, and back to the preceding item. Sub-pages in the two scanned story sections
will have a fourth link: back to the preceding commentary. Additionally,
further links will be added in specific areas where the material being
discussed is logically related to material in another section of the project.
Our advice to visitors: if you use one of those links, the easiest way to
return to where you were is by using the "back" key provided by your Web
browser; devising a navigation system more complex than the one we offer is,
unfortunately, a bit beyond our current HTML talents.
If you have a comment on this project or a suggestion for navigational
improvement, please drop one of us an e-mail. Melissa's address in mem9g;
Dominic's is dfp7q. Enjoy!