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Autumn Tale

Director/Writer:Eric Rohmer October Films; 110 minutes; NRRelease:7/99Cast:Beatrice Romand, Marie Riviere, Alexia Portal The latest offering from French director Eric Rohmer is as lazy and…

A Knight's Tale

Director/Writer: Brian Helgeland Columbia Pictures; PG-13; 132 minutes Release: 5/01 Cast: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany An anachronism is best understood as a…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: Andersen's Fairy Tales

Andersen's Fairy TalesContentsThe Emperor's New ClothesThe SwineherdThe Real PrincessThe Shoes of FortuneThe Fir TreeThe Snow QueenThe Leap-FrogThe ElderbushThe BellThe Old HouseThe Happy…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Red Shoes

The Naughty BoyThe Red Shoes There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear…

Tales from Shakespeare: Cymbeline

Cymbeline During the time of Augustus Caesar, Emperor of Rome, there reigned in England (which was then called Britain) a king whose name was Cymbeline. Cymbeline's first wife died when his…

Auster, Paul

(Encyclopedia) Auster, PaulAuster, Paulôˈstər [key], 1947–, American writer, b. Newark, N.J. After publishing four volumes of poetry, he wrote his first novel, Squeeze Play (1982). A compelling…

Basile, Giovanni Battista

(Encyclopedia) Basile, Giovanni BattistaBasile, Giovanni Battistajōvänˈnē bät-tēsˈtä bäsēˈlā [key], 1575–1632, Italian writer. Basile held several important official positions, devoting his spare…

Cat and Mouse in Partnership

Cat and Mouse in Partnership A certain cat had made the acquaintance of a mouse, and had said so much to her about the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at length the mouse…

du Plessix Gray, Francine

(Encyclopedia) du Plessix Gray, Francine, 1930–2019, French-American writer, b. Warsaw, studied Bryn Mawr, Black Mountain College, B.A. Barnard, 1952. She worked first as a writer and editor for…

Brewer's: Winter, Summer

We say of an old man, “His life has extended to a hundred winters;” but of a blooming girl, “She has seen sixteen summers.” Source:…