"I don't consider myself to be a teller of stories," she said.
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"The body by itself began to seem truly important to me as a grand teller of stories," she explains.
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King, O'Brian, p. 74 He casts his young hero as a person who grows in ability as a teller of stories. First he learns from his master, Feroze Khan, how to suit the story to the audience. Later he is accepted into a storytellers' guild.
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Autobiography of Karl Formes. Published in his Memory, (James H. Barry (printer), San Francisco 1891) See Internet Archive, Karl Formes Autobiography to read online may not be entirely trustworthy.H.A. Lier, 'Formes, Karl Johann' in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, in German Wikisource . Charles Santley recorded that Formes was a great teller of stories, 'much after the style of Baron Munchausen'.
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Stepanos Asoghik (), also known as Stepanos Taronetsi (), was an Armenian historian of the 11th century. His dates are unknown but he came from Taron and earned the nickname Asoghik ("teller of stories"). He wrote a Universal History in three books. The first two books summarise the history of the world - with particular reference to Armenia - using the Bible, Eusebius of Caesarea, Moses of Khoren and others as sources.
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Finally, he succeeds with his tale of the Prince of Kathiawar before a critical jury of Ram Narain and the two men who are pursuing the perpetrators of the mischief in Kappilavatthu. After this, O'Brian describes Hussein as "imbued with the spirit of tales through the telling of them."O'Brian, Hussein, p. 228 Conceivably this is a significant statement, for O'Brian is distinguished as a skilful teller of stories, himself.
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The "night singer of shares" sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble. Amsterdam, 1720 A satirical "Bubble card" Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.
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Murphy wrote a large amount of verse which he probably made little attempt to revise. It was inevitable that many of his poems should be little more than jingles, as is suggested in the title of his first volume. At his best, Murphy was a good popular poet, and the verses he wrote when his son enlisted during World War I, "My Son", succeed in expressing the mingled pride and anguish of the occasion, where a finer poet might have failed. Privately, Murphy was a born joker and a great teller of stories.
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As a songwriter, Gibb contributed primarily to melody, with his brothers writing the lyrics that they would sing on the finished song (for the most part). It is difficult to identify his contributions because the songs were so shaped to the singer, but his brothers' continued writing collaboration with him on solo projects shows how much they relied on him. He was sometimes known as "the quiet one" for his less obvious contributions to the group, but privately he was a good teller of stories, who immensely enjoyed talking with fans. His reputation as a mild- mannered, stabilising influence with two very ambitious brothers continued through his life.
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His nickname among his fellow > journeymen,'the welcome Parisian', is indicative of the enhanced status such > narrative talent earned him in this world of youthful male sociability. But > Ménétra was also a teller of stories in the colloquial sense of the term, in > that he was frequently 'economical with the truth'. To construct his memoirs > he drew on a fund of popular motifs concerning social bandits, prodigal > sons, nubile nuns and bawdy matrons, some of which he acquired from the > cheap street literature of the time, but much of which also belonged to oral > popular culture. It is unlikely that Ménétra only had recourse to these > motifs in his written work; they were already part of his storytelling > repertoire (or as Darnton puts it, his Journal is an extension of his 'bull > sessions').
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Translated into most European languages, it is the best of its author's works, with the possible exception of La Familia de Alvareda (which was written, first of all, in German). Less successful attempts are Lady Virginia and Clemencia; but the short stories entitled Cuadros de Costumbres are interesting in matter and form, and Una en otra and Elia o la Espana treinta años ha are excellent specimens of picturesque narration. It would be difficult to maintain that Fernán Caballero was a great literary artist, but it is certain that she was a born teller of stories and that she has a graceful style very suitable to her purpose. She came into Spain at a most happy moment, before the new order had perceptibly disturbed the old, and she brought to bear not alone a fine natural gift of observation, but a freshness of vision, undulled by long familiarity.
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