Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
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- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2000
Summary
The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature.
From the epic adventures of ‘Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp’ to the farcical ‘Young Woman and her Five Lovers’ and the social criticism of ‘The Tale of the Hunchback’, the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442892 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442898 |
| Author: | William Harvey, N.J. Dawood |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
William Harvey
N J Dawood (Translator)
N.J. Dawood founded The Arabic Advertising & Publishing Company in 1959, which is now one of the major producers of Arabic typesetting outside of the Middle East. He is best known for his translation of the Koran, the first in contemporary English, for the Penguin Classics in 1956. It has now sold over a million copies.
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