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The book is dedicated to Ron Ziegler. ISBN 0-8362-0547-2; Tales from the Margaret Mead Taproom (with Nicholas von Hoffman), Sheed & Ward, 1976. Library of Congress 75-17055. The cover shows Uncle Duke with his aide MacArthur in Samoa. The title references anthropologist Margaret Mead and her book Coming of Age in Samoa. A caricature of the ...
The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the
It is the eighth Dragonlance novel to be published, and the second book in the "Dragonlance Tales" series, all three books of which are anthologies of stories set in the Dragonlance milieu. The other two books in this series are The Magic of Krynn and Love and War. Unlike the Dragonlance novels published up until that point, the Tales books do ...
Thirty Tales (1934) Cut and Come Again (1935) Something Short and Sweet (1937) Country Tales (1938) The Flying Goat (1939) The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (1940) Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947) The Bride Comes to Evensford and Other Tales (1949) Colonel Julian and Other Stories (1951) Twenty Tales (1951) Selected Short Stories of H.E ...
The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels (The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie) by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth-century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York.
Authority on English-American literature, compiling of folk tales and game, primarily Appalachian Richard Thomas Chase [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) [ 3 ] was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore.
Dunsany in 1919. The catalogue of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (Lord Dunsany)'s work during his 53-year active writing career is quite extensive, and is fraught with pitfalls for two reasons: first, many of Dunsany's original books of collected short stories were later followed by reprint collections, some of which were unauthorised and included only previously published stories; and ...
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, mostly in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer chiefly from 1387 to 1400. They are held together in a frame story of a pilgrimage on which each member of the group is to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back.