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An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...
Wratislaw himself wrote that the Czech tale "[bore] an advantageous comparison with Grimm’s tale of the ‘Four Accomplished Brothers". [12] Yolando Pino-Saavedra included a variant, "The Five Brothers," in Folktales of Chile. [13] Italian author Giambattista Basile wrote a literary version, The Five Sons. [14]
Victor Watson defined series fiction broadly as "a sequence of related stories about the same groups of characters, usually by the same author", [1]: 6 as well as "a series of narratives, published separately, often over a considerable period of time, mostly about the same characters, and usually written by one author". He notes that its key ...
In total, Lear wrote and published 212 limericks, and he is still one of the best-known writers of limericks, even now. Many of his nonsense poems make great limericks for kids , but adults enjoy ...
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author , or marketed as a group by their publisher .
Short & Shivery, also known as Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, is a series of scary short-story children's books, published between 1987 and 1998 and written by author Robert D. San Souci. The anthology series spawned several sequels throughout an 11-year span. Each book contained 30 tales from America and around the world, including ...
Lynch's fourth novel, Beyond the Sea (2019), was inspired by a true event and is an existential tale involving two castaways set on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. [14] The novel has been compared to the work of Ernest Hemingway , Samuel Beckett , Herman Melville , William Golding , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Pablo Neruda by various reviewers, [ 14 ...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ ˈ l ɛ f ən. j uː /; [1] [2] 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. [3]