Tall tales
Here are entered collections of tales characterized by their quality of bragging and exaggeration of the truth.
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Broader terms:Used for:- Bragging tales
- Lying tales
- Tales, Tall
- Tall talk
- Windies (Tales)
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Timberland Tall Tales (Skowhegan, ME: Skowhegan Press, c1960), by Merle G. Chadbourne (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Tales- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- Tales of All Nations: or, Popular Legends and Romances (bound collection of about 48 issues; London: W. Strange, ca. 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies, by W. A. Clouston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1901), trans. by George W. Bateman, illust. by Walter Bobbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, With Ki-Mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (Boston and New York: Pub. for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; et al, 1894), ed. by Héli Chatelain
- The Alif Laila: or, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Commonly Known as "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" (4 volumes in Arabic; Kolkata: W. Thacker and Co.; London, W. H. Allen and Co., 1839-1842), ed. by W. H. Macnaghten (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Arabian Nights (1-volume version), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at dasburo.com)
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments (full 16-volume version; includes Supplemental Nights), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca)
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Now First Done Completely into English Prose and Verse, From the Original Arabic (9 volumes), ed. by John Payne (frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca)
- Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work (Delhi edition, 1901), ed. by John Payne
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments ("Aldine" edition; London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890), ed. by Jonathan Scott
- The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, illust. by Maxfield Parrish
- Stories From The Thousand and One Nights, ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole, trans. by Edward William Lane (HTML at Bartleby)
- Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies (second edition; London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1897), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies, by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies (London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang
- More Australian Legendary Tales: Collected From Various Tribes (with illustrations by a native artist; London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1898), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang
- The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1922), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane
- Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, by W. E. Thomas (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Short Stories From the Balkans (Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1919), trans. by Edna Worthley Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, by C. Hart Merriam (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- "Wer ist Mein Nächster?" Negertypen aus Deutschwestafrika (in German; Berlin: Gose und Tetzlaff, 1903), by Paula Karsten
- Canadian Wonder Tales, by Cyrus MacMillan, illust. by George Sheringham (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Myths and Legends of China, by E. T. C. Werner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jan M. Ziolkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mongo Proverbs and Fables (Bongandanga: Congo Balolo Mission Press, 1921), by E. A. Ruskin
- Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo) (London: Pub. for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1898), by R. E. Dennett, contrib. by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
- Croatian Tales of Long Ago (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1924), by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, trans. by Fanny S. Copeland, illust. by Vladimir Kirin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: The Sethon of Herodotus and The Demotic Tales of Khamuas, by F. Ll. Griffith (PDF at ETANA)
- Folk-Lore and Legends: English (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1890), ed. by Charles John Tibbitts
- Gypsy Folk Tales, by Francis Hindes Groome (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Sixty Folk-Tales, From Exclusively Slavonic Sources, ed. by Albert Henry Wratislaw (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Stories From Quechan Oral Literature (in Quechan and English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), ed. by Abraham M. Halpern and Amy Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Middle-English Versions of Partonope of Blois (EETS extra series #109; 1912), ed. by A. Trampe Bødtker
- Aucassin and Nicolette and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Georgian Folk Tales, ed. by Marjory Scott Wardrop (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk-Lore and Legends: Germany (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1892), ed. by Charles John Tibbitts (Gutenberg text)
- Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- English Fairy and Other Folk Tales, ed. by Edwin Sidney Hartland, illust. by C. E. Brock (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- More Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People, by George Bird Grinnell (Gutenberg text)
- Greek Wonder Tales (London: A. and C. Black, 1913), ed. by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, illust. by Edwin A. Norbury
- Twenty-Two Goblins, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder
- Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance (based on the 1893 edition), ed. by Isabel Burton, trans. by Richard Francis Burton
- Vikram and the Vampire: or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), ed. by Richard Francis Burton, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset
- Vikram and the Vampire: or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (London : Tylston and Edwards, 1893), by Richard Francis Burton, ed. by Isabel Burton, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset
- The Panchatantra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925), trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Panchatantra Reconstructed: An Attempt to Establish the Lost Original Sanskrit Text of the Most Famous of Indian Story-Collections on the Basis of the Principal Extant Versions (2 volumes (American Oriental Series v2 and 3); New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1924), ed. by Franklin Edgerton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Panchatantra Tales (illustrated HTML with commentary at panchatantra.org)
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