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A Tale of Two Cities
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The Old Wives Tale
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A Tale of a Tub
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Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen , 1863-1947, British author, b. Wales. He wrote a series of semiautobiographical fantasies, notably The Hill of Dreams (1907) and Far Off Things (1922), and tales of horror and the supernatural. Machen achieved transient fame during World War I with "The Bowman," a tale... Read more |
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tale
tale a tale never loses in the telling proverbial saying, mid 16th century, implying that a story is often exaggerated when it is repeated.a tale of a tub an apocryphal story; mid 16th century. The phrase was used as the title of a comedy (1633) by Ben Jonson, and then in 1696 (published 1704) as... Read more |
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Cinderella
Cinderella heroine of one of the most famous folktales in the world. She is rescued from a life of drudgery by her fairy godmother and eventually marries a handsome prince. The story (dating back to 9th-century China) exists in 500 versions in Europe alone; it was included by both Charles Perrault... Read more |
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Marie
Marie , 1875-1938, queen of Romania, consort of Ferdinand . The daughter of Alfred, duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, she was the granddaughter of Czar Alexander II of Russia and of Queen Victoria of England. Marie was instrumental in bringing Romania into the Allied camp in World War I,... Read more |
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temple
Temple, family name of characters in the Leather‐Stocking Tales and other novels of Cooper.... Read more |
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The Tale of Gamelyn
Gamelyn, The Tale of, a verse romance of the mid-14th cent. from the East Midlands, in 902 lines of long couplets. It is found in a number of manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, usually assigned to the Cook, and Chaucer possibly intended to write a version of it for use as the Cook's tale.The... Read more |
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini , 1920-93, Italian film director. After World War II he wrote screenplays for such neorealistic films as Rossellini 's Open City and Paisan. He began directing in 1950 and quickly abandoned neorealism in favor of professional actors and scripted tales of almost fablelike... Read more |
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World Champion Liar Spins Steel Wool Tale
...began producing steel wool. Tall tale? You bet. Weld...winner of the 72nd World Champion Liar Contest, sponsored...the Burlington Liars Club. Several...nine pounds of steel ... |