Sentence examples for tales of which from inspiring English sources

Bombay, Argentina, Tasmania, Russia – all feature in the shorter tales, of which but one have been previously published elsewhere.

There are many collections of Buddhist and popular tales, of which the most enjoyable is the Uji shūi monogatari (A Collection of Tales from Uji), a compilation made over a period of years of some 197 brief stories.

What they hear is tales of which privileged courtier or business mogul has pocketed how much.Despite sharp polarisation between arch-religious conservative Saudis and more progressive types, there is general agreement on two points.

The most famous is the anonymously written The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari), the various tales of which were first recited throughout the country by Buddhist troubadours called biwa hōshi.

Kipling's Just So Stories are in the great tradition of creation tales, of which, in western culture at least, the best-known of all is to be found in Genesis.

But the device's sales will still be dwarfed by those of global bestsellers, such as the Harry Potter tales, of which more than 400m copies have been bought globally.Bookstores and publishers may be hurting, but this does not mean that the book itself is in trouble -- at least not immediately.

It wasn't the fairy tale of which she'd dreamed.

But Kingston's appropriation of Stand By Me is in the spirit of the song - the tale of which is one of borrowing and stealing dating back 100 years.

The film was directed by Louis Malle, who also directed the 1994 film "Vanya on 42nd Street" (an adaptation of a Chekhov tale), of which Mrs. Karp was associate producer.

Most often mentioned was Mark Helprin's 1983 fantasy "Winter's Tale," of which one respondent, George Fasel of Gramercy, said, " 'Winter's Tale' was the film Martin Scorsese should have made instead of 'Gangs of New York.' " Mr. Helprin's book gets an asterisk, however, because it benefited from an e-mail campaign by a group of fans.

It's an apocalypse tale, of which we seem to have had many lately and for which I am quite the sucker, but it's a whole other and new form of apocalypse, wherein a howling wind rips everything loose from the ground.