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Martin quotes Tolkien's remark about The Lord of the Rings when asked about how his project has expanded: "The tale grew in the telling".

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Now the books about the movement's impact on the leaders' children and tales from the trenches expand the story considerably, paradoxically by looking inward.

Energized by the success of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, Potter considered expanding the frog tale and bought back her drawings and the publisher's printer's blocks.

Whether or not these early explorers were of right mind, their experiences shaped their views of the world, and the tales they told expanded the universe for all those they encountered.

With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818.

Mary Godwin began writing what she assumed would be a short story, but with Percy Shelley's encouragement and collaboration, she expanded this tale into her first novel, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.

To expand on the tale, Webre took a minor detail — that Crane's favorite book is a history of witchcraft by 17th-century Puritan preacher Cotton Mather — and used it to create a prologue that introduces the major themes.

Sometime after reading Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" (1951), Kubrick joined forces with the futurist sci-fi writer to expand on the tale about an artifact left by an ancient intergalactic civilization and its discovery by a Moon explorer from Earth.

Directed by Despicable Me's Chris Renaud, the film expands upon the tale of a humble forest guardian (voiced here by Danny Devito) trying to defend his home from an avaricious industrialist (Ed Helms) by ganging it to the adventures of a young boy (Zac Efron) who attempts to save his plasticized town from the clutches of an even more avaricious industrialist (Rob Riggle).

Mr. Foley finds assorted ways to lend plausibility to the tale, like expanding the aquatic ape theory, which postulates that human evolution was influenced by a shore-dwelling phase; in this film's version, one branch of our ancestors actually took the plunge, as it were, and began living in the sea.

Castor expands the scope of her tale by recounting in parallel the high-stakes battles fought between the Lancastrian and Yorkist lines of succession to the British throne, providing a canny assessment of the contenders and their campaigns, some of them horrifyingly gruesome.

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