Word: talese
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For 200 years, Peking opera has been not only the most popular of all the Chinese operatic styles but practically a national pastime. The plots are familiar tales about kings and concubines, scholars and lute-playing ladies. The performers, in elaborate costumes and makeup, convey their characterizations through a series...
Many a baby is born with strawberry or port-wine patches on his face, and although these disfiguring birthmarks have given rise to a lot of old wives' tales and maternal self-reproach, most have no medical significance. An exception is the massive port-wine stain with which Michael...
Women have always been masters at devastating domestic retort in art as well as life. Feminine sensibility in fiction is popularly supposed to deify feeling, but the better women novelists have customarily proved short on gush and coolly capable of dealing out the kind of cruel punishments that love gone...
* The Brazilian edition, published in 1962, was titled Primeiras Estorias (First Stories). The index was illustrated with pictograms representing the themes of the tales; the drawings are reprinted on the dust jacket of the U.S. edition.
CANTERBURY TALES. The Wife of Bath and other Chaucerian tales set to medieval rock.