But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

The name, which can also mean " hard cleft " in Irish, appears in the plural, caladbuilc, as a generic term for " great swords " in the 10th century Irish translation of the classical tale The Destruction of Troy, Togail Troi )

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

Heimskringla consists of several chapters, each one individually called a saga, which can be literally translated as ' tale '.

Extrapolating further, the text can also be read as an allegorical initiation tale and as a metaphysical guide for leading a balanced, prudent, and virtuous life.

Alec Russell says: '... for the many colorful episodes in Banda's rise to power .. can be attributed to the tale of ' the bruising of Miss Phombeya's toe ' Russell-Big Men, Little People.

This tale was especially popular in the Renaissance and can be found in many versions all over Europe.

Filostrato narrates this tale which modern readers with their ideas of gender equality can appreciate.

Colloquially, a " fairy tale " or " fairy story " can also mean any farfetched story or tall tale ; it's used especially of any story that not only isn't true, but couldn't possibly be true.

The history of the fairy tale is particularly difficult to trace because only the literary forms can survive.

One is that a single point of origin generated any given tale, which then spread over the centuries ; the other is that such fairy tales stem from common human experience and therefore can appear separately in many different origins.

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

What happened there has been described in Peder Svart's chronicle, which can be described as a strongly biased heroic tale about Gustav Eriksson.

It can also be noted that in its frequent depictions of smoky taverns and smelly back alleys, sword and sorcery draws upon the picaresque genre ; for example, Fritz Leiber's city of Lankhmar bears considerable similarity to 16th Century Seville as depicted in Cervantes ' tale Rinconete y Cortadillo.

According to the tale, Clark said, " If you can show low, you win.

One tale says that pygmy hippos carry a shining diamond in their mouths to help travel through thick forests at night ; by day the pygmy hippo has a secret hiding place for the diamond, but if a hunter catches a pygmy hippo at night the diamond can be taken.

Although the frontier society was a thing of the past during Alger's career, Geck contends that " the idea of the frontier, even in urban slums, provides a kind of fairy tale orientation in which a Jack mentality can be both celebrated and critiqued ".

Her favorite fairy tale, which she reads to her younger brother at the beginning of the film is " Rigoletto ", the story of a cursed fairy prince who must live as an ugly monster until he can find someone who can see through his appearance to the heart within.

In Rigveda there comes a reference for Vishnu-Who has measured the three lokas in three steps. The two legs can be seen but the third can not. This probably grew up into independent tale in later vedic period.

While Gaston Paris argues that the Guenivere-Meleagant episode of the Prose Lancelot is an almost literal adaptation of Chrétien's poem, the Prose Lancelot can be seen as a considerable amplification of Chrétien's tale.

Jack knew of course that the tale to be unfolded would involve a girl and probably be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent interest.

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

I shall tell you — it will be a tale of truth — he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.

Michael Giltz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a " C -", feeling that " only hardcore fans will be satisfied by this tale " and saying that Jeter's " habit of echoing dialogue and scenes from the film is annoying and begs comparisons he would do well to avoid.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

Also it is considered to be an oral tale to be told for everybody.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

Horatio asks to be allowed to recount the tale to " the yet unknowing world ," and Fortinbras orders Hamlet's body borne off in honour.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Bradley's tale, for example, takes a feminist approach to Arthur and his legend, in contrast to the narratives of Arthur found in medieval materials, and American authors often rework the story of Arthur to be more consistent with values such as equality and democracy.

Castiglione's tale took the form of a discussion among the nobility of the court of the Duke of Urbino, in which the characters determine that the ideal knight should be renowned not only for his bravery and prowess in battle, but also as a skilled dancer, athlete, singer and orator, and he should also be well-read in the Humanities and classical Greek and Latin literature.

Another tale says that Miaoshan never died, but was in fact transported by a supernatural tiger, believed to be the Deity of the Place, to Fragrant Mountain.

In this tale, Balor hears a druid's prophecy that he will be killed by his own grandson.

The title may be translated as " the great tale of the Bhārata dynasty ".

In the 1930s, anti-drug propaganda was exampled in such films as Reefer Madness ( 1936 ), originally financed by a church group under the title Tell Your Children, was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use, and Assassin of Youth ( 1937 ) about the supposed ill-effects of cannabis.

Tor Royal Lane is a dead end road which leads down from the town to the site of the disused Whiteworks tin mine, about 3 km or 2 miles to the south-east, which overlooks Fox Tor Mires, the presumed site of the Grimpen Mire to be found in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Carlotta amuses everyone with a tale of how her dramatic solo was cut from the Follies because the audience found it humorous, but somehow the number works when she sings it today (" I'm Still Here ").

The earliest surviving source for this anti-clerical tale is found in Cento Novelle Antiche, an Italian compilation of short stories from the end of the 13th century.

This tale is originally found in Hitopadesha, a Sanskrit collection of tales.

Because of its " graphic " nature, this tale has at times been translated incompletely, as in John Payne's translation, where Alibech's sexual awakening is left untranslated and is accompanied with this footnote: " The translators regret that the disuse into which magic has fallen, makes it impossible to render the technicalities of that mysterious art into tolerable English ; they have therefore found it necessary to insert several passages in the original Italian.

This tale is found in later manuscripts of the Śukasaptati.

Shevek's work made the ansible possible-it is mentioned in his tale that engineers decided they could build it once the correct theory was found.

Keene speculates that in her tale of the " shining prince ", Murasaki may have created for herself an idealistic escape from court life, which she found less than savory.

Horror fiction elements are also found in " The City of Brass " tale, which revolves around a ghost town.

His own analysis identified fairy tales by their plot elements, but that in itself has been criticized, as the analysis does not lend itself easily to tales that do not involve a quest, and furthermore, the same plot elements are found in non-fairy tale works.

Groff Conklin found the novel to be " a richly textured and thoroughly mature tale.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.

One tale recounted a man caught by the fairies, who found that whenever he looked steadily at one, the fairy was a dead neighbor of his.

They are commanded by a tribune of the Ramnes ; in one version of the founding tale, Celer killed Remus and helped Romulus found the city of Rome.

Although there is no direct literary source for the Induction, the tale of a tinker being duped into thinking he is a lord is a universal one found in many literary traditions.

He is drawn back into the tale when police interrogate him after Sophie has been found murdered with an inscribed book from him in her room, along with volumes by Baudelaire and Rimbaud.

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

Henry found solace by reading the knight-errantry tale Amadis de Gaula.

The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament.

They suggested that such descriptions of Moloch might be simply taken from accounts of the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur ; They found no evidence of a bull-headed Phoenician god.

* The magical tale of Ambrosius Aurelianus and the two dragons found beneath Dinas Emrys.