Tales from the Vienna Woods Wiener Wald" (1931), by Ödön von Horváth, and the films "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (1928) and "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (1934) take their titles from this waltz. Tales from the Vienna Woods "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (, occasionally ) is a waltz by Johann Strauss II. Composed in 1868, , Op. 325, was one of six Viennese waltzes by Johann Strauss II which featured a virtuoso part for zither. The title of Strauss' dance recalls the folk music of the inhabitants of the Vienna Woods. The waltz's introduction is one of the longest he ever wrote for
Tales from Ovid splendid book is discovering that "the sweet witty soul of Ovid" now lives in Ted Hughes." Tales from Ovid Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998). Published in 1997 by Faber and Faber, it is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". It won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award for 1997 and has been translated into several languages. It was one of his last published works along with "Birthday Letters". Four of the tales were previously published in "After Ovid, New Metamorphosis", edited