Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis Carroll exhibit has been arranged in the Widener Memorial Room and will be on display through next week. Manuscripts made while the author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a student at Eton and Oxford, Carroll's own copy of the first edition of the classic fairy tale, and the first rough draft for "Through the Looking Glass," are among the many treasures in the exhibition...
...speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage and treachery that reads like a fairly tale...
Included in the program is a Chinese fairy tale in which a willow tree goes out of its way to help a princess in distress. The tree bears one banana to appease the wrath of an angry mandarin, and die immediately after accomplishing its errand of mercy...
...Dronte's experience in the see-thing and chaotic countries of France and Germany in the late Eighteenth Century, the admirable blending of the supernatural and picturesque, the touch of fantasy, and the vigor of its action, place this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...
Suffice it to say that those who mourn the passing of romance will find in this tale adventures compared to which many of more classic stories of battle and exploration pale to insignificance. Already it is being noised abroad that the German fleet performed far more creditable exploits during the war than we were allowed to suppose at the time. The true accounts of the Battle of Jutland and Count Luckner's narrative have gone far to explode the myth of British naval supremacy. And, as it becomes less and less treasonous to believe facts, we will come to know...