With his engrossing tale well told, a writer candid enough to call his history fiction would seem to have granted himself immunity from scholarly criticism.

AGES 8-10 - By now many will handle the disturbing elements and be caught up in an engrossing tale.

The film is an engrossing tale about a self-proclaimed character trait of the American psyche: the ability to reinvent yourself.

And an engrossing tale he has to tell.

In an "engrossing tale well told," the reader follows Lincoln "in the first 21 months of the Civil War."

The transformation of silver manufacturing from a labor-intensive craft to a profitable industry is an engrossing tale.

"On Stage, Off Stage" conveys, simply and directly, an engrossing tale.

For the most part it is an engrossing tale, and nicely detailed: the torpid rhythms of life in the small-town South are wonderfully caught.

Taking place over just five days, this novel "is an engrossing tale, and nicely detailed," Anthony Quinn wrote in these pages in 1996.

Mr. Greenburg writes an engrossing tale filled with black humor and psychologically interesting characters.