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"A Nursery Tale" (Russian: Сказка, Skazka) is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov first published in the expatriate Russian newspaper Rul on 27 and 29 June...

this area was James Halliwell-Phillipps' The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities...

French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. She also appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. The...

of hebephilia was already touched on by Nabokov in his short story "A Nursery Tale", written in 1926. Also, in the 1932 Laughter in the Dark, Margot Peters...

put forth negative views. Mary Ann Glendon wrote that the book is "a nursery tale for the 'me' generation, a primer of narcissism, a catechism of exploitation"...

a well known nursery tale in the Scottish Highlands in the eighteenth century. It can be categorised as a "death of an elf (or cat)" tale: Aarne–Thompson–Uther...

"This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther...

"Old Mother Hubbard" is an English-language nursery rhyme, first given an extended printing in 1805, although the exact origin of the rhyme is disputed...

C. W. The Tree of Mythology, Its Growth and Fruitage: Genesis of The Nursery Tale, Saws of Folk-lore, etc. 1889 De Vries, Eric. 'Hedge-Rider: Witches and...

of a Sunset" "Bachmann" "The Return of Chorb" "A Guide to Berlin" "A Nursery Tale" "Razor" "The Passenger" "The Potato Elf" "The Aurelian" "Terra Incognita"...

Vol. 2. J. Murray. 1838. Retrieved 23 June 2015. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, London 1849, "Days of Birth", p.228 A. Fox, Oral and Literate Culture...

Japan, the 1940 short story "Run, Melos!" by Osamu Dazai and an earlier nursery tale by Miekichi Suzuki are based on the legend, as is a 1992 anime produced...

character appearing in multiple legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Some of the most famous Jack tales are "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Jack Frost",...

wrote an adaptation of the story in his book Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales in 1975. In it, the donkey, dog, cat, and rooster set out as a musical...

He received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. His film, A Nursery Tale (1999), won the Special Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival for Best...

Friends, 1954 The Party Pig, 1954 Pierre Bear, 1954 The Bunny Book, 1955 Nursery Tales, 1958 Cars and Trucks, 1959 Firemen and Fire Engine Stamps, 1959 Naughty...

of a Sunset" "Bachmann" "The Return of Chorb" "A Guide to Berlin" "A Nursery Tale" "Razor" "The Passenger" "The Potato Elf" "The Aurelian" "Terra Incognita"...

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1910. The book tells the...

translations of children’s literature from English into Afrikaans, and nursery stories in Afrikaans published sometime thereafter, she disappeared from...

"Little One-Inch" or "The Inch-High Samurai") is the subject of a fairy tale from Japan. This story can be found in the old Japanese illustrated book...