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Storytelling Aesop semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10]
Baron traveler grossly embellishes his experiences. [Ger. Lit.: Harvey, 565] originally a fictitious nursery rhyme spinner from Perrault, later a Bostonian authoress. [Fr. Lit.: Brewer Handbook, 732] wily teller of tales. [Gk. Legend: Odyssey] (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 B.C.—A.D. 17) great storyteller of classical mythology. [Rom. Lit.: Zimmerman, 187] narrator of animal tales in Old South. [Am. Lit.: Nights with Uncle Remus] told endless tales as she and Boss traveled. [Am. Lit.: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court] forestalls her execution with 1,001 tales. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights] chronicles Sherlock Holmes’s cases. [Br. Lit.: Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Based on author Leon Cooper's personal experiences as an American naval officer during World War II, "90 Day Wonder: Darkness Remembered" is a compelling military biography that flows with the engaging qualities of first rate story telling, all of which was written down with the assistance of successful screen and television writer Don Tait. A welcome and confidently recommended addition to school and community library collections, "The Feedsack Dress" is a charming, original, and deftly written novel by an author who has a readily discernable talent for story telling and an impressive ability to make her readers care about her characters. Editor-in-chief of the literary review 'Akhbar al-adah' and the author of six collections of short stories, Egyptian author Gamal al-Ghitani has written "Pyramid Texts", a novel that fully reveals his impressive abilities at story telling that blends Sufi mysticism and medieval Islamic history with the imagery and mystery those enigmatic monuments of Egyptian antiquity that are the only surviving member of the ancient seven wonders of the world. |
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