Truth and Tall Tales

A miscellany of book reviews, rambles, opinions and outright lies

Showing posts with label folk tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folk tales. Show all posts
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Outfoxed

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The Fox Wife: A Novel Yangsze Choo Fiction 392 pages Henry Holt and Co., Press, 2024 “There are as many kinds of foxes as there are types ...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Best eBook version of the Nights

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This post, originally written in winter 2013 is rewritten below in winter 2021. In order to base stories on the Arabian Nights one must be s...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

Noted British explorer serves up literary appetiser

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Vikram and the Vampire ; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Richard Francis Burton (Author), Isabel Burton (Editor) Fic...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

An excellent sampling of Richard Purtill’s fiction

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Parallel Worlds of Richard Purtill Richard Purtill Fiction 404 pages AuthorHouse. 2011 This collection contains a full-length novel, “The ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

He read it all and lived to tell about it

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The Arabian Nights : Acompanion Robert Irwin Nonfiction 342 pages Tauris Parke Paperbacks. 2004 Henry Reeve discussed the translat...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The Arabian Nights – Gathered, Privately Printed, and Out of Print

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While not all of us are familiar with the titles, “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment” or “One Thousand and One Nights”, most of us have hear...
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