Sentence examples for based on the tale from inspiring English sources

The story inspired many – including Robert Louis Stevenson, whose novel Kidnapped is based on the tale.

EL SHADDAI: ASCENSION OF THE METATRON Here we have a game based on the tale of Enoch that takes as its title an ancient name for God.

The Aix festival premiered the composer George Benjamin's "Written on Skin" last summer, a work based on the tale of the troubadour Guillaume de Cabestanh.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Music by Alan Menken; lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; book by Mike Ockrent and Ms. Ahrens, based on the tale by Charles Dickens.

It is true that Hatfields & McCoys, a 2012 miniseries commissioned by the History Channel and based on the tale of feuding 19th-century clans, was a success and won several Emmys.

The former hostages consider it a trifle odd that "Argo" is based on the tale of six embassy staff members who eluded Iranians, posing as students, who took over the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979.

Mr. Morris's version is based on the tale-within-a-tale midway through the original E. T. A. Hoffmann story — a subplot in which an evil Rat Queen disfigures the baby Princess Pirlipat, who will regain her beauty only if a young man finds and cracks a special hard nut with his teeth.

"Fiddler on the Roof," which is based on the tales of Sholem Aleichem, is a seamless collaboration of an especially cunning book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and choreography by Jerome Robbins.

Trained since the age of 16 in Khon dance, the traditional Thai masked dance-drama based on the tales of the Ramayana, Mr. Klunchun, 39, also studied contemporary dance and is best known for bridging the gap between the two art forms.

Greatly enjoying Deborah Levy's short story based on the true tale of a princess who believes she has swallowed a tiny glass piano, which takes as its starting point Cervantes's story of the glass student.

A Musical Tale of the Ugly Duckling," based on the fairy tale.