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.

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 ".

The tale of P. T. Barnum: secret agent saw the celebrated showman saving the life of President Grover Cleveland and ( with his circus charges, including original siamese twins Chang and Eng ) and matching wits against the " evil " Nikola Tesla.

Their tale is celebrated first by Gunadhya in his novel Brhatkatha and later by Bhasa and Sudraka in their dramas Svapnavasavadatta and Vinavasavadatta, respectively.

* Donnei des Amanz ,, the conversation of two lovers, overheard and carefully noted by the poet, of a purely didactic character, in which are included three interesting pieces, the first being an episode of the story of Tristram, the second a fable, the third a tale,, which is the basis of the celebrated Lai de l ' oiselet ( Rom.

Foster's tale has been read on the one hand as a “ novel for providing a subversive message about the ways in which the lives of women even of the elite are subject to narrow cultural constraints ” and, on the other hand, as an instructive novel that “ comes down on the side of the ideology of Republican motherhood and the women ’ s sphere, a sphere that celebrated those women who with appropriate sentiment and rationality accepted their “ place ” in the world.

Armida is a tale of love and duty in conflict and is saturated in magic.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

There he drew inspiration for Les Chouans ( 1829 ), a tale of love gone wrong amid the Chouan royalist forces.

" In the reverse situation, in the tale of " Beauty and the Beast ," a transformed prince then told the girl that he had been bewitched by a wicked fairy, and could not be recreated into a man unless a maid fell in love with him and kissed him, despite his ugliness.

King Lear is also a literary variant of a common fairy tale, Love Like Salt, Aarne-Thompson type 923, in which a father rejects his youngest daughter for a statement of her love that does not please him.

The unification of Norway is, according to a tale narrated in Heimskringla, something of a love story.

* Pastorela — the tale of the love request of a knight to a shepherdess

All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ) is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love.

Ovid frames the tale within the story of Orpheus, whose failure to retrieve his bride Eurydice from the underworld causes him to forsake the love of women in favor of that of boys.

Edmond Rostand adapted the tale from Romeo and Juliet, making the fathers of the lovers conspire to bring their children together by pretending to forbid their love, in Les Romanesques.

The tale intended to demonstrate the power of love.

* Baishe Zhuan, a romantic tale set in Hangzhou involving a female snake who attained human form and fell in love with a man

A review in Variety magazine included: " Fritz Lang's production and direction ably project the sordid tale of the romance between a milquetoast character and a gold-digging blonde ... Edward G. Robinson is the mild cashier and amateur painter whose love for Joan Bennett leads him to embezzlement, murder and disgrace.

It was then-Disney Studio President Jeffrey Katzenberg who insisted the film should be re-written as a modern-day fairy tale with qualities of a love story, as opposed to being the dark drama it was originally developed as.

Its inclusion of a villain character, Stormella, and a love interest, Zoey, for Rudolph as well as a small sidekick, Slyly, and a strong protector character, Leonard, are very derivative of the Rankin-Bass adaptation of the story as opposed to the original tale and song ( the characters of Stormella, Zoey, Arrow, Slyly and Leonard closely parallel the Rankin-Bass characters of The Bumble, Clarice, Fireball, Hermey the Dentist, and Yukon Cornelius respectively ).

Romance is a 1930 film which tells the story of a bishop sharing a cautionary tale with a young man, who is going against the wishes of his family, of the dangers of falling in love with " fallen women ", by using a story of naivete from his past.

* Dit de l ' Alérion aka Dit des quatre oiseaux (" Story of the 4 Birds ") ( before 1349 ) – A symbolic tale of love: the narrator raises four different birds, but each one flees him ; one day the second ( and preferred ) bird comes back to him.

In the lyrical expression of the domestic emotions he displays a fine felicity, and he knew how to treat with true feeling a tale of love or vengeance.

There are earlier elements that contributed to the tale, in the medieval courtly romance Perceforest ( published in 1528 ), in which a princess named Zellandine falls in love with a man named Troylus.

Charlotte Temple is a seduction tale, written in the third person, which warns against listening to the voice of love and counsels resistance.

The song relates the tale of a young man who instructs the listener to tell his former love to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back.

He saved $ 20, 000 during his tenure there, enabling him to finance the majority of his tale of doomed love between a gay liquor store clerk and a Mexican immigrant.

In the Ulster Cycle tale, Serglige Con Culainn (" The Sickbed of Cúchulainn ") Manannán's wife, Fand, has an ill-fated affair with the Irish warrior Cúchulainn.

It is possible that originally Lancelot's tale did not include an affair with Guinevere, as the German Lanzelet knows nothing of it.

Gould's Book of Fish ( 2001 ), Flanagan ’ s third novel, is based on the life of William Buelow Gould, a convict artist, and tells the tale of his love affair with a young black woman in 1828.

Onsen geisha Matsuei, the actual person upon whom Kawabata based the character Komako in the novel. Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in the remote hot spring ( onsen ) town of Yuzawa ( Kawabata himself did not mention the name of the town in his novel ).

Her affair with the Governor was a fairy tale as Van Allan treated her opulently.

In his story " Angie Luna ," the tale of a feverish love affair in which a young man from El Paso rediscovers his Mexican heritage, Troncoso explores questions of self-identity and the ephemeral quality of love.

They get married, buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel believes they are living a fairy tale ending until she discovers her husband is having an affair.

She co-starred in The Seduction of Joe Tynan with one of her former Broadway leading men, Alan Alda ( who also wrote the screenplay ), a tale of a liberal Washington Senator caught in an affair with a younger woman, played by Meryl Streep.

The tale concerns a man who is shocked to learn that his daughter's new " Barbee " doll has " titties "; however, he falls in love with the doll and has an affair.

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 ''.

Hrothgar's court bard sings of the encounters at Finnsburg ( lines 1068 - 1159 ), and improvises the tale of Beowulf's exploits in a complimentary comparison of the Geatish visitor with Sigemund ( lines 871 - 892 ) ; ;

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

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 tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

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

" It rolls in like a storm, drums galloping over the horizon into ear shot, guitar riffs slicing with terse dexterity while a tale about a pair of vagabonds unfolds ," writes Kot.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

The tale Culhwch and Olwen, associated with the Mabinogion and perhaps written in the 11th century, draws a dramatic picture of Arthur's hall and his many powerful warriors who go from there on great adventures, placing it in Celliwig, an uncertain locale in Cornwall.

" Film critics sometimes use the term " pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters ( often including a central female character ) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences.

Dramas also took a turn with existentialist thrillers such as Fight Club ( 1999 ) and the tale of suburban angst American Beauty ( 1999 ).

In a well-known but probably apocryphal tale, Archimedes was given the task of determining whether King Hiero's goldsmith was embezzling gold during the manufacture of a golden wreath dedicated to the gods and replacing it with another, cheaper alloy.

Caledfwlch appears in several early Welsh works, including the poem Preiddeu Annwfn and the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, a work associated with the Mabinogion and written perhaps around 1100.

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.

An example is Andrew Lang's fairy tale Princess Nobody ( 1884 ), illustrated by Richard Doyle, where fairies are tiny people with butterfly wings, whereas elves are tiny people with red stocking caps.

The subsequent tale, with similarities to the Biblical story of the forbidden fruit, repeats the story of how fresh water brings life to a barren land.

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 .”

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 ").

Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was planning on working on other projects at this point in time such as a new version of a fairy tale film script called Kaguyahime ( Princess Kaguya ), but he postponed those to work on this project with Toho instead since he was such a huge fan of King Kong.

Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).