Word: tale
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: Veteran historian Stephen Ambrose writes at full throttle about the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 1860s. This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told...
...BLIND ASSASSIN: Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life - and some mysterious deaths - she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...
...BEOWULF: The Anglo-Saxon epic, the bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid - and his bravery while facing - the dictates of his fate...
However, Randolph is the first to admit that her life has been no Cinderella tale...
Lopes, a pleasant-looking woman in her 60s, tells a classic immigrant's tale of sacrifice for the next generation. She speaks through an interpreter, MAPS Director of Social Services Claudia Lobo...