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Tale of Two Cities (A), a novel by Dickens (1859). The two cities are London and Paris during the revolution of 1789.

Tales. (1) Chinese Tales, being the transmigrations of the mandarin Fum-Hoam, told to Gulchenraz daughter of the king of Georgia. (See Fum-Hoam, p. 398.)—Gueulette (originally in French, 1723).

(2) Fairy Tales, a series of tales, originally in French, by the comtesse D’Aulnoy (1698). Some are very near copies of the Arabian Nights. The best-known are “Chery and Fairstar,” “The Yellow Dwarf,” and “The White Cat.”

(About the same time (1697), Claude Perrault published, in French, his famous Fairy Tales, chiefly taken from the Sagas of Scandinavia.)

(3) Moral Tales, twenty-three tales by Marmontel, originally in French (1761). They were intended for drafts of dramas. The design of the first tale, called “Alcibiadês,” is to expose the folly of expecting to be loved “merely for one’s self.” The design of the second tale, called “Soliman II.,” is to expose the folly of attempting to gain woman’s love by any other means than reciprocal love; and so on. The second tale has been dramatized.

(4) Oriental Tales, by the comte de Caylus, originally in French (1743). A series of tales supposed to be told by Moradbak, a girl of 14, to Hudjadge shah of Persia, who could not sleep. It contains the tale of “The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus” (See Moradbak, p. 724.)

Tales of Fashionable Life, by Maria Edgeworth. Three volumes appeared in 1809, and three more in 1812.

Tales of a Grandfather, in three series, by sir W. Scott; told to his grandson, “Hugh Littlejohn.” His real name was John Hugh Lockhart, and he died on December 15, 1831, aged eleven years. These tales are supposed to be taken from Scotch chronicles, and embrace the most prominent and graphic incidents of Scotch history. Series i., to the James amalgamation of the two crowns in James I.; series ii., to the union of the two parliaments in the reign of queen Anne; series iii., to the death of Charles Edward the Young Pretender.

Tales of My Landlord, tales supposed to be told by the landlord of the Wallace inn, in the parish of Gandercleuch, “edited and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, schoolmaster and parish clerk” of the same parish, but in reality corrected and arranged by his usher, Peter or Patrick Pattison, who lived to complete five of the novels, but died before the last two were issued. These novels are arranged thus: First Series, “The Black Dwarf” and “Old Mortality.” Second Series, “Heart of Midlothian;” Third Series, “Bride of Lammermoor” and “Legend of Montrose;” Posthumous, “Count Robert of Paris” and “Castle Dangerous.”—Sir W. Scott. (See Black Dwarf, introduction.)

Tales of the Crusaders, by sir W. Scott, include The Betrothed and The Talisman.

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