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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.
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!"
"Allamagoosa" is a Hugo-winning humorous science fiction short story by the English author Eric Frank Russell, originally published in the May 1955 issue of Astounding. The story is a satire on the bureaucratic mindset - in this case in a military setting - and on the second-order complications caused by an attempt to evade it.
All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published on December 22, 1999 that discusses aspects of romantic love in modern society. The book is organized into thirteen chapters, in which each chapter discusses an aspect of love. Within these chapters, hooks also provides the reader with reflections on her own journey of love, as well ...
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, [1] although it did not win. It did win a retrospective Libertarian Futurist Society award: the Prometheus Hall of Fame ...
Each story has its feet firmly planted in the real world, but serves as an epicenter for swirling fantasies. In one story, "The Lizzie Borden Jazz Babies," Sparks makes use of a tragic plot point that sets off many classic fairy tales – the untimely death of a protagonist's parent – and applies it to the father instead of the mother.
"The Finnegan", a tall tale in a Victorian mood. "That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes "The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife
The tale may have been influenced by John Keats' poem "The Eve of St. Agnes", which is also the story of a young woman turning to a supernatural power for romantic advice. [ 2 ] In terms of form, "The Dream" is a variation on the Gothic fragment , exemplified by Anna Letitia Aiken 's "Sir Bertrand: A Fragment" (1773).