Hi, guys! I’m a newbie here striving for natives’ help to check an annotation title:

Folk-tale motifs in a Modernist fantasy The Title by Author.

That''s practically a word-for-word translation from Russian. Does it feel like a calque? If so, how would you improve it?

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"In 1969, John Rendall & Ace Berg saw a lion cub for sale in Harrods. Cramped & lonely in a small cage, they decided to bring it home."

The lion pounced on their landlord and ate him. But because the lion had no thumbs, it could not let John and Ace out of their small cage.

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The knife is designed for people who need to drop large mammals quickly: sharks, bears, etc.

INTERVIEWER: ...very briefly, what would you want a reader to take away from this book?

ANTHOLOGY EDITOR: Oh, I think just the enormity and the complexity and the wonderful richness of the book, all of the things that the book offers.

As the editor of UNCLE BOBBY'S WEDDING, I knew it was only a matter of time before it was formally challenged. And I had no allusions about librarians such as yourself serving as the shock troops, bearing the brunt of defending this wonderful and long-awaited book.

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Venezuela's populous president, Hugo Chavez

Bill Cosby's new book should have been called Come On, People

The Missouri Department of Revenue will not correct license plates which say "Show Me State" instead of "Show-Me State". Why not? Because "Show Me State" was what was approved online by voters. The state has already produced 2 million plates without the hyphen and intends to stamp 10 million more.