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The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles — is a French fairy tale from Cabinet des Fées . Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book .ynopsisA widowed queen of the Flowery Isles had two daughters. The older of them was so beautiful that her mother feared that the Queen of all the… … Wikipedia
Fable — Fa ble (f[=a] b l), n. [F., fr. L. fabula, fr. fari to speak, say. See {Ban}, and cf. {Fabulous}, {Fame}.] 1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
figment — I noun canard, chimera, concoction, creation of the mind, deception, delusion, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fancy, fantasy, feigned story, fiction, fiction of the mind, flight of fancy, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagined… … Law dictionary
fiction — fic·tion n: legal fiction fic·tion·al adj Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. fiction … Law dictionary
fiction — n. 1. Invention, fancy, fantasy, imagination. 2. Novel, romance, work of fiction, feigned story. 3. Fabrication, figment, invention, fable, falsehood, lie. 4. Fictitious literature … New dictionary of synonyms
Hamlet (legend) — Hamlet is a striking figure in Scandinavian romance and the hero of Shakespeare s tragedy, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark .The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his… … Wikipedia
List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights — This article provides a list of stories within Richard Francis Burton s translation of One Thousand and One Nights . Burton s first ten volumes were published between 1885 and 1886. The Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as… … Wikipedia
arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… … Universalium
Hamlet — This article is about the Shakespeare play. For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). The American actor Edwin Booth as Hamlet, ca. 1870 The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William… … Wikipedia
Sources of Hamlet — The sources of Hamlet , a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601, trace back as far as pre 13th century Icelandic tales. The generic hero as fool story is so old and is expressed in the literature of so … Wikipedia
