Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The improving tale of Becky Sharp.
Following publication of the non-fictional A Confession in 1882, Tolstoy aimed to concentrate on morally improving tales.
For a long time Andersen suffered from his translators, pious Victorian ladies who turned the stories into improving tales of virtue in times of adversity, dismissed by critics as mere sentimental religiosity.
Whereas Galland was interested (like his readers) in improving tales of virtue and sentiment in a commercial setting, Lane expounds on costume and burial customs and Burton on the African penis.
I have always liked improving tales (Madonna's kabbala teacher suggested she share her spiritual wisdom in books for children) and all proceeds will go to a children's charity.
This resulted, in 1976, in their collaborating on You're a Brick, Angela!, a review of girls' books between 1839 and 1975, spanning a wide spectrum of writings, from the moral and improving tales of the Victorians, via school adventures and comic papers, to the novels of Joan Aiken, Nina Bawden and others.
Often we can change strategies mid-race, and improve on our tale of the register tape.
The reviewer for Game-OST was generally positive, calling it one of the best albums of the series and better listening outside the context of the game than previous albums, though stated that despite some improvements, it did little to improve on previous Tales scores.
It was the first Wimbledon match for Baker, a former leading junior whose excellent comeback tale keeps improving.
Perhaps best known to American audiences as the only actor in "The Departed" who did not sprain his tongue attempting a Boston accent (and maybe also as the voice of Beowulf in Robert Zemeckis's animated version of that Old English tale), Mr. Winstone improves every movie he is in.
