Among the onlookers at the San Blas festivities was an American, Joe Kissack, a forty-four-year-old former television executive from Atlanta who had arrived earlier that week, intent upon persuading the fishermen that he was the best person to help them tell — and sell — their tale throughout the world.
Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.
A strong autobiographical element runs through his sadder tales; throughout his life he perceived himself as an outsider, and, despite the international recognition he received, he never felt completely accepted.
Entities which cannot claim this status are dubbed as "fairy tales" throughout the book.
The white-bellied sea eagle is revered by indigenous people in many parts of Australia, and is the subject of various folk tales throughout its range.
This self-described "romance nouveau" is based in Toronto and manages to tell captivating tales throughout each album in his repertoire.
Ethnographers collected fairy tales throughout the world, finding similar tales in Africa, the Americas, and Australia; Andrew Lang was able to draw on not only the written tales of Europe and Asia, but those collected by ethnographers, to fill his "coloured" fairy books series.
Hemingway may have given us some great tales throughout his adventurous life, but it is undeniable that he was self-conscious and preoccupied with his personal demons and emotions, given that he drank so heavily that his health declined, leading him to put the barrel of his favorite shotgun into his own mouth.
How he came to be on trial is a tortuous and tawdry tale, and throughout the previous year I had become familiar with the minutiae: my late father, George Carman QC, was retained to defend him in June 1978.
The American setting is not as important as the Anglicized suspension in which the fairy tale floats: throughout this seven-hundred-and-seventy-page yarn, Tartt's American characters move through a world of cozy Britishisms, like "they tucked into their food," "you look knackered," "crikey," "skive off," and "gobsmacked".
The nuanced tale unfolding throughout American History X turned out to be an aberration.
