This lyrical tale first attracted the puppeteer Amy Trompetter when the Kentucky Opera asked her to work on an adaptation.

It is a magical and lyrical tale of Lucky and his young minstrel master to whom he brings unexpected good luck - until he is stolen.

It is not a strictly historical document but rather a long, lyrical tale focusing on the internal perceptions and poetic development of the writer .

Howard didn't want to risk unwelcome anti-climactic disclosures from Jackson Wells that might upset his lyrical tale of the dream lovers and the semi-mystical death.

She read lines and stanzas aloud, reciting lyrical tales out of Ildiran myth and legend from theSaga.

Politics raged around Tatyana Tolstaya, too, as she constructed the lyrical tales in her second short-story collection, "Sleepwalker in a Fog" (Alfred A. Knopf).

The book has been acclaimed as a lyrical, edgy and perceptive tale of the second-generation foreigner, the child of immigrants stranded in a no man's land between the old culture and the new.

A quietly lyrical tale of a servant girl in 1950's Saigon, it was nominated for a foreign film Oscar in 1994.

Then he began a lyrical tale about another fund-raiser he once attended at the Metropolitan Club.