Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beatrix Potter, a gentle English lady skilled in telling stories that children really like, and illustrating them in sly effective watercolors. First published in 1904, Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books have sold by the hundreds of thousands, are cherished by adults who spurn her imitators. Besides the Tale of Peter Rabbit, other Potter best sellers include: Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Tailor of Gloucester, Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
According to Authoress Yurlova's tale, she left her home in Raevskaya at 14 followed her father, a Colonel of Cossacks, to the War. She never found him, but enough else came her way to keep her busy. A kindly Cossack fitted her into a uniform, had her hair cut and soon she was doing a soldier's share. Twice recommended for the Cross of St. George, she was wounded, captured by Kurds, shellshocked. When the Revolution broke the Bolsheviks caught her in a hospital at Kazan, threw her into prison. Rescued by Czechoslovaks who had joined...
...Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still stout, decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom...
Time, measured by minutes or months, seconds or centuries, is as trickily undefinable as electricity. Author Howard Coxe's well-told tale attempts no definition but shows with ingenious clarity that one way of looking at time is backwards, over one shoulder. His story of a spinster's life begins with her death sentence, ends with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first...
...they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked...