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According to the University of Washington Archives, the tall tales were "collected in West Coast logging camps" by Shephard and her husband. [15] Paul Bunyan was republished in an illustrated edition in 1941; [ 16 ] American artist Rockwell Kent embellished the text, with 24 full-page illustrations and numerous others.
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (/ h iː p ˌ n ɛər oʊ t ə ˈ m ɑː k iː ə p ə ˈ l iː f ə ˌ l iː /; from Ancient Greek ὕπνος hýpnos 'sleep' ἔρως érōs 'love' and μάχη máchē 'fight'), called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a book said to be by Francesco Colonna.
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hebrew: סיפור על אהבה וחושך Sipur al ahava ve choshech) is a memoir by the Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002. The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a million copies have been sold worldwide.
The tale is also known as Broadman, Longfellow and Sharp Eyes. [8] Walter William Strickland translated the tale as Long, Broad and Sharp-Eyes. [9] The tale was also collected in German with the name Der Lange, der Breite und der Scharfäugige, by Josef Wenzig. [10] Another version of the tale appears in A Book of Wizards by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
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The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. [1]
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