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The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux is Kate DiCamillo's 2003 Candlewick children's fantasy about a mouse who loves Princess Pea, the rat Roscuro, and serving girl Miggery Sow; it won the 2004 Newbery Medal and was adapted as a 2008 Universal animated film.
The Tale of Despereaux (film)
The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 Universal Pictures CGI animated fairy tale directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen, adapted from Kate DiCamillo's Newbery-winning novel, voiced by Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Watson, with a 53 Metascore and about $87 million grossed.
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat (Повесть о Евпатии Коловрате) is an Old Russian episode about the Ryazan boyar Evpatiy Kolovrat fighting Batu's army after Ryazan fell in 1237.
The Tale of Genji (源氏物語)
The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari) is a 54-chapter Heian court tale by Murasaki Shikibu, written around 1008, often called the world's first novel, centered on Prince Genji and his descendants.
The Tale of Heungbu
The Tale of Heungbu (흥부전, Heungbu-jeon; also Heungbu and Nolbu) is a Korean pansori-based novel of the late Joseon period about kindhearted Heungbu and his greedy brother Nolbu.
The Tale of Hoa Tiên
The Tale of Hoa Tiên (Truyện Hoa Tiên) is an 18th-century Vietnamese verse novel by Nguyễn Huy Tự, written in Nôm script in lục bát meter.
The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich (Повесть о том, как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем) is a satirical 1833 novella by Nikolai Gogol.
The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu
The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu is a Tang dynasty tale by Jiang Fang about the poet Li Yi and the abandoned courtesan Huo Xiaoyu, who dies of grief.
The Tale of Jeon Uchi
The Tale of Jeon Uchi (전우치전, Jeon Uchi-jeon) is a classical Korean novel of unknown authorship about a Joseon trickster whose Taoist magic mocks the powerful and corrupt.
The Tale of Kieu
The Tale of Kieu (Truyện Kiều, Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh) is a 3,254-line lục bát verse epic by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), written in Nôm script and adapted from the Chinese novel Jin Yun Qiao; no definitive text exists, and it has been translated into over 20 languages.
The Tale of Lady Ok (옥씨부인전)
The Tale of Lady Ok (옥씨부인전, 玉氏夫人傳) is a 16-episode JTBC Korean sageuk (Nov 30, 2024–Jan 26, 2025) starring Lim Ji-yeon as a runaway slave posing as noblewoman Ok Tae-young, with Choo Young-woo; directed by Jin Hyeok, written by Park Ji-sook; finale rated 13.6%.
The Tale of Li Wa
The Tale of Li Wa (Li Wa zhuan) is a Tang dynasty Chinese tale by Bai Xingjian about a scholar who falls in love with the Chang'an courtesan Li Wa and marries her.
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên (Truyện Lục Vân Tiên) is a Vietnamese verse narrative in the lục bát meter, written by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu in the early 1850s.
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm verse narrative in lục bát meter, adapted from a Chinese novel about the Mai and Trần families.
The Tale of Nie Yinniang
The Tale of Nie Yinniang is a Tang dynasty chuanqi tale about a female assassin, attributed to Pei Xing and preserved in the Taiping Guangji.
The Tale of Nokdu (조선로코 녹두전)
The Tale of Nokdu (조선로코 녹두전) is a South Korean Joseon-era romantic comedy series, adapted from Nokdujeon, broadcast on KBS2 in 2019, featuring Jang Dong-yoon and Kim So-hyun.
The Tale of Ochikubo
The Tale of Ochikubo (Ochikubo monogatari, 落窪物語) is an anonymous late-tenth-century Japanese tale in which a noblewoman mistreated by her stepmother marries a nobleman and takes revenge.
The Tale of Ondal
The Tale of Ondal (Ondaljeon, 온달전) is a Korean narrative about a poor, mocked young man who married Princess Pyeonggang, rose to become a Goguryeo general, and died in battle in 590.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is Beatrix Potter's 1902 picture book about a disobedient young rabbit in Mr McGregor's garden, first privately printed in 1901 after publisher rejections, with over 40 million copies sold.
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa (範公菊花) is a Vietnamese Nôm verse tale in lục bát meter, written roughly between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries.
The Tale of Phan Trần
The Tale of Phan Trần is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm-script verse romance, probably 18th or early 19th century, telling of lovers betrothed before birth who are separated by war.
The Tale of Ren Shi
The Tale of Ren Shi (Renshi zhuan, 任氏传) is a Tang dynasty chuanqi tale by Shen Jiji, written in 781, about a faithful fox spirit in Chang'an.
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 Shuzenji
The Tale of Shuzenji (修禅寺物語, Shuzenji monogatari) is a one-act kabuki play by Okamoto Kido, published in 1911 and premiered at the Meijiza theater in Tokyo.
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.