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American fairy tales, a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature entities such as dwarfs , dragons , elves , fairies , giants , gnomes , goblins , griffins , mermaids , talking animals , trolls , unicorns , or witches , and usually magic or enchantments .
In addition to American Fairy Tales, Baum's Dot and Tot of Merryland and The Master Key appeared in 1901. Publisher George M. Hill sold the serialization rights to the twelve stories in AFT to five major newspapers, the Pittsburgh Dispatch, The Boston Post, The Cincinnati Enquirer, the St. Louis Republic, and The Chicago Chronicle. The stories ...
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Articles relating to tall tales, stories with unbelievable elements, related as if they were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely ...
Authority on English-American literature, compiling of folk tales and game, primarily Appalachian Richard Thomas Chase [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) [ 3 ] was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore.
American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 by multiple authors; American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens; American Places by Wallace and Page Stegner; American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp; American Supernatural Tales edited by S. T. Joshi; Amerika by Franz Kafka; America is in the ...
This is a fine story of adventure, swift moving full of colour, violent action, set in the time of Christopher Columbus. The Moor is fourteen when the tale begins and eventually he sails with Columbus on the Santa Maria to the Americas: PS 79: Melissa Ann: Ethel Parton: Sylvia Dyson: 1955: A tale of Regency times PS 80: The Adventures of ...
The Old Folk of the Centuries (full-length play) (1930) Mr Faithful (full-length play) (1935) Plays for Earth and Air (1937), [2] plays written for and produced on radio, notably BBC Light and the World Service "Fame Comes Late" "A Matter of Honour" "Mr Sliggen's Hour" "The Pumpkin" "The Use of Man" "The Bureau de Change" "The Seventh Symphony"