He opens his tale in the early 1960s, when he was a professor at Stanford University.
Here are the details of this amazing tale: In the 1980s, as a number of savings institutions ran into trouble, regulators encouraged stronger banks to absorb imperiled ones.
Woking – a commuter town near London and the setting for HG Wells' War of the Worlds – provided another fantastical tale in the 1991 FA Cup.
Renaud Doucet's production sets the tale in the 1950s, with surreal sets, garish costumes and comic antics that sometimes turn inane.
Directed and choreographed by Renaud Doucet, with sets and costumes by André Barbe (originally designed for l'Opéra National du Rhin), this bold staging sets the tale in the 1950s.
And, although a visit to Peter Brook's production of The Winter's Tale in the summer of 1951 is integral to the action, we never learn anything of Franklin's tastes in music and literature.
This time Jeffrey Eugenides starts his tale in the 1980s, as Madeleine Hanna writes her senior thesis on George Eliot and Jane Austen and "the age-old motivations of the human heart", and finds herself at the centre of her own love triangle.
The outset of the tale, in the 1870s, reveals an area brutalised by military occupation and impoverished by rapacious taxation - much of it required to pay off debts to the great powers.
Leshner cites American agricultural R&D as a cautionary tale: In the past decade, U.S. funding of agricultural science has fallen by 26%, while India, China, and Brazil each increased their spending.
There's a related tale in the 2003 best-selling book "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential".
