As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

This belief can be traced to The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, where a goddess deposits the elixir of life on the peak.

A text of the 10th century Tale of the Bamboo Cutter says that the name came from and also from the image of ascending the slopes of the mountain.

The 10th century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, can be considered an early example of proto-science fiction.

A handscroll painting dated circa 1130, illustrating a scene from the " Bamboo River " chapter of the Tale of Genji.

As aforestated, non-genuine folktales are those already committed to writing long ago, the earliest being the tale of Princess Kaguya ( or The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ), an example of monogatari type of romance dated to as early as the 10th century, though extant manuscripts are much later.

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* Kawabata Yasunari, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ( Kodansha Amer Inc, September 1, 1998 )

It comes from the name of a lunar princess in the ancient Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.

** The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ( Taketori Monogatari )

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Kaguya-hime returning to the Moon in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ( c. 1650 ).

Other worlds are depicted in such early works as the 10th-century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and the medieval Arabic The Adventures of Bulukiya ( from the One Thousand and One Nights ).

* A Modern Bamboo Cutter's Tale ( page 2 ), by Doug Jackson, a student of Atsuya Okuda

* The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century Japanese folktale, tells of a mysterious Moon Princess growing up on Earth as the adopted daughter of a bamboo cutter and his wife, dazzling human Princes and the Emperor himself with her beauty, and finally going back to her people at " The Capital of the Moon " ( Tsuki-no-Miyako 月の都 ), leaving many broken hearts on Earth.

This film is a loose retelling of the famous Japanese folktale, Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari ( The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya ).

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten are representative of Hill Top Farm and of her farming life, and reflect her happiness with her country life.

The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm ( 2004 ) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.

* Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale ( 1992, DC Comics, ISBN 1-56389-026-7 ) ( with John Byrne )

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

Might and Magic is considered one of the defining examples of early PC role-playing games, along with the Bard's Tale, Ultima and Wizardry series.

Some identify the love adventure at Siena that Aeneas related in his romance The Tale of the Two Lovers with an escapade of the chancellor.

The first publication of The Tale of Igor's Campaign coincided with the rise in Russian national spirit in the wake of the Napoleonic wars and Suvorov's campaigns in Central Europe.

In these articles, Adorno championed avant-garde music at the same time as he critiqued the failings of musical modernity, as in the case of Stravinsky ’ s The Soldier ’ s Tale, which he called in 1923 a “ dismal Bohemian prank .” In these early writings, he was unequivocal in his condemnation of performances which either sought or pretended to achieve a transcendence which Adorno, in line with many intellectuals of the time, regarded as impossible: “ No cathedral ,” he wrote, “ can be built if no community desires one .” In the summer of 1924, Adorno received his doctorate with a study of Edmund Husserl under the direction of the unorthodox neo-Kantian Hans Cornelius.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.

Poe was familiar with Sale, and even mentioned him by name in a note in his story " The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade ".

Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall ( with whom he would work again in 1986, directing an episode of her Faerie Tale Theatre ) and Daniel Stern.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

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In the United States, the novel was first published with the title The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, at the insistence by the publisher, Dodd, Mead and Company, that no one would buy or read a book with the word nigger in its title, not because the word was deemed offensive but that a book about a black man would not sell.