Search Results for: The Moral Tales

Books about The Moral Tales of M. Marmontel. Translated from the French by C. Denis, and R. Lloyd. ...

Now, for the first time, the stories of Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas have been translated into English. This is an important collection from a writer who is remembered as a master story-teller.

In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More’s “Tawney Rachel,” for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition;

Books about Poetic Amusement, Consisting of a Sample of Sonnets, Epistolary Poems, Moral Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces

Books about Moral Tales