Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
$40.18
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2016
Summary
A great cache of ancient, magical stories in the same tradition as The Arabian Nights.
Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before.
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, swo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241299951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241299950 |
| Author: | Malcolm Lyons, Anonymous |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 339g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Superb, a revelation - a real classic of popular literature … endlessly diverting and inventive, (giving) a unique insight into a now-lost elegant, courtly and tolerant Arab world
Superb, a revelation - a real classic of popular literature … endlessly diverting and inventive, (giving) a unique insight into a now-lost elegant, courtly and tolerant Arab world – William Dalrymple * Sunday Times *
Offers a gateway to a different world of language and ideas, florid, wildly descriptive and are a powerful reminder of the human need for story … irresistible * Independent *
This book is an astonishment … a profound oddity, but an absolutely intriguing one * Scotland on Sunday *
Instantly appealing (with) headlong narrative drive … like a Medieval Fifty Shades of Grey … above all, fun * Guardian *
About The Author
Malcolm Lyons
Malcolm C. Lyons is the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of the complete Arabian Nights. He was Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and is a life fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is one of the world’s leading experts on classical Arabic literature.
Robert Irwin’s books include For Lust of Knowing- The Orientalists and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages, The Arabian Nights- A Companion and (as editor) The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabian Literature. He also introduced and edited the Penguin Classics Arabian Nights.
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