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Grandmother's Tale is a novella by R. K. Narayan with illustrations by his brother R. K. Laxman published in 1992 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] It was subsequently released outside India as The Grandmother's Tale by Heinemann in 1993. [2] This book, more than any others, exhibits Narayan's experimental tendencies. [3]
The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories is a book by R. K. Narayan with illustrations by his brother R. K. Laxman published in 1994 by Viking Press. [1] The book includes a novella, Grandmother's Tale and some other stories in the characteristic Narayan style that captures suffering through comedic narratives. [2]
The Choctaw people of Tennessee and Mississippi tell the story of Grandmother Spider stealing fire, then after animals refused it, bringing fire to humans. [17] [18] Susan Hazen-Hammond (1997, 1999) compiled numerous tales collected from various tribes. [19] In the Pacific there is a connection between Spider Grandmother and the Moon Goddess. [20]
The Grandmothers. At a beach café in Australia, the waitress is struck by the physical beauty and mutual affection of a group: two women Roz and Lil, their two sons Tom and Ian, and two little girls who are the sons' children. Tom's wife Mary appears in great distress and, seizing both children, says she is taking them away forever.
"The Devil and his Grandmother" or "The Dragon and His Grandmother" (German: Der Teufel und seine Großmutter) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 125. According to Jack Zipes, the source of the story was Dorothea Viehmann, the wife of a tailor from Hesse. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book.
His painting Grandmother's tales (1867) was shown at an exhibition of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, where it won a prize and was bought by Pavel Tretyakov. In 1872 he was admitted to the Peredvizhniki group, and soon became one of its most prominent and rigorous members.
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Robert Antoni (born 1958) is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010 for his work on the historical novel As Flies to Whatless Boys. [1]