The second episode, ' Private Enterprise ', was the tale of a music business rip off, where Peter Richardson steals a studio recording session tape and passes the results off as his own work.

" The Pardoner is an enigmatic character, portrayed as grotesque in the General Prologue and apparently aware of his own sin — it is not clear why he tells the pilgrims about his own sin in the prologue prior to his tale — yet his preaching is correct and the results of his methods, despite their corruption, are good.

Mahadana Muttha tells the tale of a fool cum Pundit who travels around the country with his followers ( Golayo ) creating mischief through his ignorance.

In one version of the tale, he travels abroad on a ship, and wins many friends as a result of the rat-catching activities of his cat ; in another he sends his cat and it is sold to make his fortune.

The family travels to Palermo to see Anthony perform the lead in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, a tale of murderous revenge in a Sicilian setting.

They concoct a tale about her father Gilbert having had a stroke and being on the verge of death, and her mother Miriam travels to India in hopes of convincing her to come home, with no success until she suffers a serious asthma attack.

During the latter half of the Edo period and the Meiji period, a kōdan ( narrative tale ) named " Mito Mitsukuni Man ' yūki " fictionalized the travels of Tokugawa Mitsukuni.

The first narrative is considered to come from a sanctuaries narrative ( 1 Samuel 4: 1-7: 1 ) that recounts the tale of the Ark's captivity, and perhaps was originally more extensive in its details about the Ark's travels ( possibly including the narratives found elsewhere about Araunah's threshing floor, and the death of Uzziah ).

* In Carlo Collodi's children's tale Le Avventure di Pinocchio ( The Adventures of Pinocchio ), Pinocchio travels to The Country of Playthings, described in the original Italian as una vera cuccagna-a real Cockaigne.

As Twinsen travels between the islands of the planet, seeking to find a way of overcoming Funfrock's clone army and recover Zoe, he discovers that his strange dreams are in fact part of the Prophecy, a legendary tale regarding a being known as Sendell who is said to inhabit the core of the planet and watch over the people of Twinsun.

The story, which tells the tale of a doctor who travels to the United States in search of a cure for his ailing wife, includes the tragic sinking of an ocean liner after it strikes an object at sea.

It is a " one-off " tale of a sad and bored Martian who travels to Earth in search of happiness.

The story of The Dream of Rhonabwy in the 12th century Red Book of Hergest is a prose literary tale where the main character travels to the time of King Arthur in a dream.

In the tale, Alexander travels a great deal, builds the Wall against Gog and Magog, searches for the Water of Life ( Fountain of Youth ), and encounters angels who give him a " wonder-stone " that both weighs more than any other stone but is also as light as dust.

Galloway travels to the Covenant estate on the coast of Ireland to visit his friend, who relates an outlandish tale of supernatural terrors.

* 2005: " Way's End "-The story of a girl named Lexi, as she travels through a fairy tale and explores her life.

The main tale of the Summoner is about a Mendicant friar who travels about preaching and gaining his living by begging.

This tale was first spread widely in English in the stories of the travels of Sir John Mandeville in the 14th century.

Shree 420 is the tale of a country boy, Raj ( Raj Kapoor ), from Allahabad, who travels to the big city, Bombay, by walking, to earn a living.

In the tale, Macunaíma travels from his home tribe in the jungle to São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro and back again to his home in the jungle with chase scenes that go all over the country of Brazil in between.

Elaith tends to be hard on his allies ; in other words, few live to tell the tale of their travels.

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell ( Roud 10124 ) is a bawdy rhymed recitation or song that recounts the tale of Deadeye Dick, his accomplice Mexican Pete and a woman they meet on their travels, named Eskimo Nell.

In the novel, Moorcock weaves an existentialist tale about Karl Glogauer, a man who travels from the year 1970 in a time machine to 28 AD, where he hopes to meet the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

It is a short, semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy.

" This tale recounts the journey of a courteous gentleman, Diego, who was endowed with a massive nose.

Some modern critics have inferred from this, that a few of the Julii might have settled in Rome in the reign of the first king ; but considering the entirely fabulous nature of the tale, and the circumstance that the celebrity of the Julia gens in later times would easily lead to its connection with the earliest times of Roman story, no historical argument can be drawn from the mere name occurring in this legend.

* Julia Roseingrave ( 1933 ) ( as Robert Paye )-a tale of witchcraft

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 average American, this must sound like an incredible tale from a Saturday night TV movie.

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 ''.

A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names.

Alcinous' court bard sings of the discovered adultery of Ares and Aphrodite ( Odyssey 8 266-366 ), and takes up a tale of Odysseus while the Ithacan wanderer listens on ( Odyssey 8 499-520 ).

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.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.

Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

It was not, whatever tale was told by tails.

A second tale shows still more clearly the kind of powers a truly spiritual monk could possess: `` On one occasion Yang Shan ( Kyo-zan ) saw a stranger monk flying through the air.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

So Enright's courting of the mettlesome Ellen is impeded considerably, thereby providing the tale which is told.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

To them all Dolores told a lighthearted and witty tale.

The tale, he thought, would become less gay.

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.