Word: retold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by halo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy
ITALIAN FOLKTALES Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino Translated by George Martin; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 763 pages...
...that Shikasta unveiled Lessing's new cosmology; three vast galactic empires (two benign, one evil) and mysterious universal harmonies that, when slightly untuned, wrecked life on Shikasta. a small planet suspiciously similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...
...stories, told and retold, sometimes acquire a life of their own. Over the years some of the faithful have been trekking to Aurora to search for the small spaceman's grave. "Sometimes they take souvenirs, and a couple of years back somebody stole the spaceman's tombstone," says H.R. Idell, the town marshal, referring to a big rock with a mysterious-looking crack in it. "But mostly folks just poke around in the ruins...