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"About Love" (Russian: О любви, romanized: O lyubvi) is an 1898 short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The third and final part of the Little Trilogy, started by " The Man in the Case " and continued by " Gooseberries ".
Toell the Great was one of the great tall tales of Estonia. The Babin Republic , in Renaissance Poland (1568), was a satirical society dedicated entirely to mocking people and telling tall tales. Juho Nätti (1890–1964), known as Nätti-Jussi, was a Finnish lumberjack known for telling tall tales; his stories have also circulated as folk ...
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 story revolves around the rescue of Tam Lin by his true love from the Queen of the Fairies. The motif of winning a person by holding him through all forms of transformation is found throughout Europe in folktales. [2] [3] The story has been adapted into numerous stories, songs and films.
The anthology features 21 stories that had not yet appeared in book form. [1] ... a sequel to "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair". ... "The Finnegan", a tall tale in a ...
The book was adapted as both a television film in 1991 [4] and a one-act children's musical that was performed Off-Broadway in 2002. [5] It was followed by four sequels exploring the Witting family after Sarah's arrival called Skylark , Caleb's Story , More Perfect Than the Moon , and Grandfather's Dance .
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 Snowman" (Danish: Sneemanden) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a snowman who falls in love with a stove. [1] It was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen as Sneemanden on 2 March 1861. [2]