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A Short Shelf of Tall Tales Fifteen volumes appeal to the senses of humor and wonder
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor I of the nursery," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "and I have not found any books so sensible since." Graham Greene put it another way: "The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves."
The fox is synonymous with cunning in tales as far apart as Aesop's and Thurber's. But what is the animal really like? Margaret Lane's The Fox (Dial; $9.95) is a documentary, full of facts and insights, demonstrating that the animal lives up (and down...
It is a hostile wasteland of flat sands and marching dunes, where the temperatures have soared to 122° F, and the rain falls only once in 30 to 50 years. But for thousands of years, there have been tales that the Sahara's arid surface concealed a "large...
A few tales blur the line between the superrealistic and the gothic. In "The Gift Horse's Mouth" by R.E. Smith, a rancher's wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud...