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The Tale of Sagoromo
The Tale of Sagoromo (Sagoromo monogatari) is a Japanese court romance of the late Heian period, composed around 1069 to 1081 and once ranked second only to The Tale of Genji.
The Tale of Sim Cheong
The Tale of Sim Cheong (심청전, Simcheongjeon) is an 18th-century Korean novel about a devoted daughter who sells herself for rice to restore her blind father's sight.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語)
Taketori monogatari (竹取物語), The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, is the oldest extant Japanese court tale (monogatari), composed in the 9th-10th centuries, telling of Kaguya-hime's bamboo birth, impossible suitors' tasks, and return to the moon.
The Tale of the Curly-Bearded Guest
The Tale of the Curly-Bearded Guest (Qiuran Ke Zhuan, 虬髯客传) is a late Tang dynasty chuanqi tale attributed to Du Guangting, set at the fall of the Sui dynasty.
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights is an 1834 fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin retelling the Russian folk version of Snow White.
The Tale of the Departing Soul
The Tale of the Departing Soul (Lihun ji, 離魂記) is a famous Tang-dynasty tale by Chen Xuanyou, telling how a young woman's soul elopes with the man she loves.
The Tale of the Girl from Nam Xương
The Tale of the Girl from Nam Xương is a sixteenth-century short story by Vietnamese scholar Nguyễn Dữ in his collection Truyền kỳ mạn lục.
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (Сказка о золотом петушке) is an 1834 fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, about Tsar Dadon and a magic cockerel.
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語)
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike monogatari) is a 13th-century Japanese war tale on the Taira clan's rise and fall in the Genpei War, recited by biwa hōshi as heikyoku and best known in the 1371 Kakuichi text.
The Tale of the Hollow Tree
Utsuho Monogatari (宇津保物語, The Tale of the Hollow Tree) is an anonymous late-10th-century Japanese court romance in twenty scrolls, the oldest full-length monogatari, centered on a secret koto music and a Heian succession dispute.
The Tale of the Hundred-Knot Bamboo
The Tale of the Hundred-Knot Bamboo (Cây tre trăm đốt) is a Vietnamese folktale in which a poor laborer, helped by Ông Bụt, outwits a stingy landowner.
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1830 and first published in 1840.
The Tale of the Rabbit
The Tale of the Rabbit (Tokkijeon), also known as Byeoljubujeon, is an anonymous satirical Korean novel of the late Joseon dynasty in which a rabbit outwits the Dragon King.
The Tale of the Soga Brothers
The Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari, 曽我物語) is a Japanese military epic in which Soga Jūrō and Gorō avenge their father by killing Kudō Suketsune in 1193.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Сказка о царе Салтане)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Сказка о царе Салтане) is Pushkin's 1831 verse fairy tale about Tsar Saltan, Prince Guidon, and the Swan Princess, published 1832, based on the folk tale "Leg to the knee in gold," later adapted by Rimsky-Korsakov into an opera.
The Tale of Từ Thức
The Tale of Từ Thức (Từ Thức tiên hôn lục) is a Vietnamese tale in which a scholar marries a fairy and returns to find decades passed.
The Tale of Yoshitsune
The Tale of Yoshitsune (Gikeiki, 義経記) is a Japanese war tale in eight volumes, compiled in the Muromachi period, recounting the life of the general Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel, opens the five-book Ripliad about con artist Tom Ripley. Adapted as Purple Noon (1960), Minghella's 1999 film, and Netflix's Ripley (2024).
The Tales of Amadou Koumba
The Tales of Amadou Koumba (Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba) is a 1947 collection of nineteen African tales retold in French by the Senegalese writer Birago Diop, his first book.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is J.K. Rowling's 2008 collection of five wizarding fairy tales with Dumbledore commentary, tied to Deathly Hallows, sold for the Lumos charity after a £1.95 million manuscript auction.
The Tales of Belkin
The Tales of Belkin (Повести Белкина) is a cycle of five short stories by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1830 at Boldino and published in 1831 under a fictional author's name.
The Tales of Ise
The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari, 伊勢物語) is a Japanese poem-tale of the early Heian period, 125 episodes built around waka poems and modeled on Ariwara no Narihira.
The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, or Sippurei Ma'asiyot, is a collection of thirteen allegorical tales told by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav from 1806 to 1810 and published in 1815.
The Talisman (King and Straub novel)
The Talisman, the 1984 dark fantasy novel co-written by Stephen King and Peter Straub, follows 12-year-old Jack Sawyer's quest through the parallel Territories to save his mother, and spawned Black House and Other Worlds Than These.
The Tatami Galaxy (四畳半神話大系)
The Tatami Galaxy (四畳半神話大系, Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei) is Tomihiko Morimi's 2004 Kyoto campus novel about an unnamed student reliving university life across four parallel worlds from his 4.5-mat tatami room; adapted into Masaaki Yuasa's 2010 anime.
The Tattooer
"The Tattooer" (刺青, Shisei; also translated "Tattoo") is a 1910 short story by Japanese writer Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, regarded as his debut, in which beauty and evil coincide.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris's 2018 novel based on Lali Sokolov's testimony, a bestseller criticized by the Auschwitz Museum for factual errors, adapted as a 2024 Sky/Peacock series.
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart is Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 short story, first printed in The Pioneer, about an insane narrator who murders an old man with a vulture eye and confesses after hearing the victim's heartbeat.
The Tempests
The Tempests (Al-ʿAwāṣif, العواصف) is a 1920 Arabic collection of essays, short stories, and prose poems by Kahlil Gibran, his last book published in Arabic.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë's 1848 novel published as Acton Bell, depicts Helen Huntingdon's flight from an abusive marriage within a letter-framed diary structure; it caused scandal, was suppressed by Charlotte Brontë, and was restored by the 1992 Clarendon Edition.