Tall tales

Descrizione
Tall tales, traveller's tales, sailor's yarns, urban legends, etc. Fantastically exaggerated stories of strange and wonderous events that are presented as true but don't necessarily attempt to be plausible or expect to be believed by audiences.
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Odissea
di Homer
53,031 utenti
473 recensioni
4
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Spiegazioni
spiphany: A number of plot elements are based on motifs from folklore/legend, and Odysseus engages in a fair bit of fabulation himself during the course of the story...
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Le città invisibili
di Italo Calvino
9,374 utenti
205 recensioni
4.1
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Spiegazioni
spiphany: Plays with the genre of the traveller's tale
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Gargantua e Pantagruele
di François Rabelais
5,040 utenti
48 recensioni
½ 3.7
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American Tall Tales
di Mary Pope Osborne
1,313 utenti
37 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Le avventure del Barone di Munchausen
di Rudolf Erich Raspe
1,164 utenti
16 recensioni
½ 3.5
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Gulliver's Travels
di Jonathan Swift
1,131 utenti
11 recensioni
½ 3.5
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
di John Mandeville
725 utenti
11 recensioni
½ 3.4
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
di Jan Harold Brunvand
636 utenti
9 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Le avventure del barone di Munchhausen
di Gottfried August Bürger
421 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.7
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From the Mouth of the Whale
di Sjón
410 utenti
30 recensioni
3.2
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Spiegazioni
spiphany: Engages with various fabulous accounts of strange monsters and happenings; some are taken at face value by the narrator, while others are discredited.
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Storia vera
di Lucianus
270 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.5
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John the Balladeer
di Manly Wade Wellman
260 utenti
4 recensioni
4.1
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Hippolyte's Island: An Illustrated Novel
di Barbara Hodgson
253 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.7
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [short story]
di Mark Twain
245 utenti
½ 3.7
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Trafalgar
di Angélica Gorodischer
181 utenti
3 recensioni
3.9
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The realm of Prester John
di Robert Silverberg
107 utenti
1 recensione
4.1
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Lies and Other Tall Tales
di Zora Neale Hurston
95 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 3.6
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Tall Tale America
di Walter Blair
93 utenti
5
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The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
di Lord Dunsany
39 utenti
½ 4.4
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Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels
di William Hansen
37 utenti
1 recensione
3.8
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Kuttel Daddeldu
di Joachim Ringelnatz
31 utenti
3.8
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The peculiar exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes
di Sterling E. Lanier
27 utenti
½ 4.5
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Le paradis des poules
di Dan Lungu
19 utenti
2 recensioni
4.2
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Die wundersamen Reisen Gustavs des Weltfahrers
di Irmtraud Morgner
12 utenti
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Due storie del porto di Bahia
di Jorge Amado
359 utenti
10 recensioni
3.8