first published in england in 1978, tales of a rat-hunting man marked the literary debut of the author, who went on to become one of the sceptered isles most admired semi-public eccentrics.
In England it was a tale of austerity.
Alan Ayckbourn has said that he originally thought this dystopian tale about England in the 2100s was a sci-fi novel.
The story of England's education system is "a tale of two nations".
Morgan's was another chapter in what is becoming a sorry tale for the England captain, his run of international scores since his hundred against India at the SCG last month reading 0, 2, 0, and 0, with another 0, from the first warm-up game against West Indies, tucked in there too.
So it went to penalties - and a familiar tale of woe as England were again the victims of this cruellest form of defeat.
Today, we are stuck with a Thanksgiving tale about the New England Pilgrims because the North won the war and claimed the right to tell the story.
Hobbs cited the number of intact Lovecraft reference points around the city, as well as the creaky, socially stratified New England setting of many of Lovecraft's tales.
It may stress received religious or moral doctrine, thus generating the Catholic children's literature of Spain or the moral tale of Georgian and early Victorian England.
The work is based on Robert Dodsley's "King and the Miller of Mansfield," a tale of how the king of England loses his hunting party in Sherwood Forest.
For Tomkins, and indeed the entire England squad, the international landscape has been a tale of misery at the hands of Australia for time immemorial.
