According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24, 000 verses called simply Bhārata.

Commentary on the tale itself follows.

To end the tale before Han's enemy had itself met its fate would be to leave the reader unsatisfied.

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.

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France ( 1690 – 1710 ), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault ( 1697 ), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

The tale itself is a variation on a common folktale motif.

The movie employs the story within a story device, being about a young ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called The Red Shoes, itself based on the fairy tale " The Red Shoes " by Hans Christian Andersen.

King says he wondered what it would have been like to have been raised by such a mother, and based the story itself on a reversal of the Cinderella fairy tale.

While the series ' first book consisted of a coming of age process through an arduous voyage which would ultimately lead to Ged confronting his own issues, The Tombs Of Atuan works in a much more restricted, confined space, which reflects itself in the narrative's style and progression, Tenar's tale being more intimate and less epically inclined than the previous novel.

At the end of Act IV of King Lear, Edgar, disguised as the Poor Tom, the crazy beggar, babbles " Child Rowland to the dark tower came ", an allusion itself to the fairy tale of Childe Rowland.

Frankenstein's book itself is a fantastic tale of solving the mystery of why these artists were forgotten for much of the twentieth century.

With his transformation into Galvatron, Megatron departed from the Japanese G1 continuity ( which took a different direction after the end of series 3, opting to replace the events of The Rebirth with those of Headmasters ), until five years later, in the manga-exclusive storyline, Battlestars: The Return of Convoy, which, although not animated itself ( told instead through one chapter of manga and color magazine spreads ), continues the tale of the cartoon Universe.

The history of Nordland is a tale about the gifts from the sea: One of the most productive seas in the world providing food all year since ancient times, the same sea creates a climate more moderate than any other place in the arctic ; even the bedrock itself enriched by sea living organisms millions of years ago in the geological past.

Hollis Robbins, in " The Emperor's New Critique " ( 2003 ), argues that the tale is itself so transparent " that there has been little need for critical scrutiny.

The tale itself was adapted as an episode of the 2008 series Fairy Tales.

That embedded story itself contains a third tale, the eponymous Blind Assassin, a science fiction story told by Alex's fictional counterpart to the second novel's protagonist, believed to be Laura's fictional counterpart.

" The Death of Koschei the Deathless " is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, which itself is included in The Red Fairy Book.

Wiersema places emphasis on structure: “ Interestingly, the creator never creates a position of privilege for himself ; his story is as fictive, and as truthful-feeling, as the “ bigger, impossible story ” of the Connelly siblings, and becomes another strand in the complex and utterly winning tale Lent is spinning .” While Sandborn offers a thematic overview: “ The book works both as a straightforward story of family pain, addiction, love and redemption, and as a highly intelligent meditation on the process of writing itself .”

The story itself has no definitive text, but consists of innumerable variants, each improvised by the teller in the act of telling the tale from a mental stockpile of verbal formulas, thematic constructs, and narrative incidents.

The song's lyrics are quoted at the beginning and end of the tale, and the ballad itself is cited as a fixture in the lives of the Scotch-Irish pioneers.

The Lost Road itself is a fragmentary beginning of a tale, including a rough structure and several intriguing chunks of narrative, including four entire chapters dealing with modern England and Númenor, from which the entire story as it should have been can be glimpsed.

Sometimes humorous, anecdotes are not jokes, because their primary purpose is not simply to evoke laughter, but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself, or to delineate a character trait in such a light that it strikes in a flash of insight to its very essence.

Although Kaiba does not believe into Ishizu's warning that history was sure to repeat itself, he is interested by her tale of the Egyptian God Cards – three powerful one-of-a-kind Duel Monsters cards that Pegasus has entrusted to her.

The tale is retold, with varying fidelity, in several works of Western literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer's " The Physician's Tale " in his Canterbury Tales, in Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, and in the play Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:

Lafcadio Hearn, writing primarily for a Western audience, tells a tale like this:

The novel tells a gripping epic-tragic tale of the conflicting forces of Western education and Xhosa traditional beliefs amongst the “ School people ” and the “ Ochre people ” of the Mpondomise people.

This tale of a Country and Western singer entering the life of a downtrodden singer / songwriter starred Daniel Stern, James Caan, Sherry Stringfield and Patricia Richardson.

" Cases of Judge Dee ") an original tale dealing with three cases simultaneously, and, which was unusual among Chinese mystery tales, a plot that for the most part lacked an overbearing supernatural element which could alienate Western readers.

It was a released as a silent film Romance of the Western Chamber ( 1927 film ) in China in 1927, directed by Li Minwei and Yao Hou, and in 2005, the TVB series Lost in the Chamber of Love made a twist in the tale and had Hong Niang, played by Myolie Wu, falling in love with Zhang Sheng, played by Ron Ng, while Cui Yingying, played by Michelle Ye, would marry Emperor Dezong of Tang, played by Kenneth Ma.

In several notable works of Western culture, the Dance of the Seven Veils ( usually described as danced by Salome ) is one of the elaborations on the biblical tale of the execution of John the Baptist.

After a prolonged absence, Polonsky returned to directing in 1969 with the Western film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, a tale of a fugitive Native American pursued by a posse, which Polonsky converted into an allegory about racism, genocide, and persecution.

In Western literature, he is probably better known for his humorous story Longevity, which was translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki for her book Japanese Fairy Tales in 1908, and since then has been reprinted in some children's Asian fairy tale collections.

The first book is called The Queen of the Western Isle, second The Maid of the White Hands and third The Lady of the Sea, and Nancy McKenzie wrote a book Prince of Dreams: a tale of Tristan and Essylte as part of her Arthurian series.

While there is some debate as to who Vasco da Gama's navigator was – the result of a lack of clarity in his captain's log and several competing accounts written by contemporary Portuguese scholars – according to Tibbets, the tale of ibn Majid leading Vasco da Gama is popularized largely as a result of the ascendancy of the Western narrative of world history, and is not historically accurate.

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.

Much romance has gathered around his name, and the tale of his illicit relationship with the Mughal courtesan, Anarkali, has been widely adapted into the literature, art and cinema of India.

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.

This sarpasattra material was often considered an independent tale added to a version of the Mahabharata by " thematic attraction " ( Minkowski 1991 ), and considered to have a particularly close connection to Vedic ( Brahmana ) literature.

John Thorpe, who knows little about literature, tells Catherine that he likes The Monk ( an over-the-top tale of lurid Gothic horror ):

In terms of aesthetic values, Italo Calvino cited the fairy tale as a prime example of " quickness " in literature, because of the economy and concision of the tales.

Other examples include: comedy, drama, fable, fiction, folk tale, hagiography, legend, literature, myth, narrative, saga, science fiction, story, theme, tragedy.

The tale chronicles the effects on local literature and social structure as various letters are banned from daily use by government dictum.

Some noted appearances of the animal in literature include the short story Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler is a tale of bureaucratic incompetence ; two guinea pigs held at a train station breed unchecked while humans argue as to whether they are " pigs " for the purpose of determining freight charges.

* The tale means: “ Asiaq, the mistress of wind and weather ”, the book title means: “ Eskimo tales ”, the series means: “ The tales of world literature ”.

As recently as 2008, magical realism in literature has been defined as "... a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the ' reliable ' tone of objective realistic report, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folk tale, and myth while maintaining a strong contemporary social relevance.

Similarly in Persian literature, " The Adventures of Bulukiya ", a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights, describes the protagonist Bulukiya learning of alternative worlds / universes that are similar to but still distinct from his own.

The episode is one of the most notorious cases of mass hysteria, and has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations and lapses in due process.

This tale went on to achieve greater currency because its inventor linked Brutus to the diaspora of heroes that followed the Trojan War, and thus provided raw material which later mythographers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael Drayton, and John Milton could draw upon, linking the settlement of Britain to the heroic age of Greek literature, for their several and diverse literary purposes.

The " tale " presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine.

Neither Jack or his tale are referenced in English literature prior to the eighteenth century, and his story did not appear in print until 1711.

The Opies observe that " no telling of the tale has been recorded in English oral tradition ", and that no mention of the tale is made in sixteenth or seventeenth century literature, lending weight to the probability of the tale originating from the oral traditions of the Cornish ( and / or Breton ) ' droll teller '.

The incidents and plot devices of the Italian epics later became central to works of English literature such as Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ; Spenser attempted to adapt the form devised to tell the tale of the triumph of Christianity over Islam to tell instead of the triumph of Protestantism over Roman Catholicism.

Renaud de Montauban, ( also spelled Renaut, Renault, Italian: Rinaldo di Montalbano, Dutch: Reinout van Montalba ( e ) n ) was a fictional hero and knight who was introduced to literature in a 12th century Old French chanson de geste known as Les Quatre Fils Aymon (" The Four Sons of Aymon ") ( frequently referred to simply as tale of Renaud de Montauban ).

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.

Established as a recurring theme in important literature, the tale lived on among the literature faculty long after it had been dropped by the anthropology department.