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…in all of Chaucer's praise for the Parson is that he is duller than the more corrupt churchmen. As the last tale of the manuscript, addressing a grave religious subject, the Parson’s Tale becomes ironic for the situation. The Parson refuses to tell a foolish…

…was the first step to his popularity. Dicken's twelfth and thirteenth novels, published in 1859 and 1861, seemed to be the most known novels by readers. In his twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, he used his friend Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution…

…. Especially since many of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" in particular, are marked by deep sadness over the loss of a loved one. "Poe gave these fantastic tales a dark, compelling sincerity" (Levert 59). Many of his poems are also…

…to comprehend the tale he was telling. “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.”(Genesis 2:7) From just this passage we get many messages about the power of God. First, the word “formed…

…Life's But a Walking Shadow Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespeare's Macbeth…

…of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out; and we'll take upon's the mystery…

…Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning book is a masterfully written tale. Beloved begins in the late 1800's in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe, a former slave, lives with her eighteen-year-old daughter Denver. Sethe's mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, lived with them…

…In the short story, Suffer the little Children, Stephan King tells the tale of an old school teacher who faces an unusual problem. The teacher, Miss Sidley, is forced to deal with a group of children unlike any she had faced in her life…

…. It is believed that these vampires are most active during full moon. They are immortal and they can only be killed if a wooden stake is run through the heart or when they are beheaded. In the year of 1879 an Irish writer, Bram Stoker, unheard with his previous novels…

…is this reuniting of father and daughter where Lear seems to be perfectly sane and at peace. When he and Cordelia are being taken to jail he tells her to go with him, and to have no fear. He tells her that they will "live,/And pray, and sing, and tell old tales…