- Teller of Tall Tales
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, E T A Hoffmann, Washington Irving, Baron von Munchausen, Edgar Allan Poe, Aleksander Sergeevich Pushkin, and Mark Twain
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Teller of Tall Tales
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