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Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Traducere de Malcolm Lyons Autor Anonymous Anonymous
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2016
On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription:'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.'

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 intoThe Arabian Nightsbut most have never been read in English before.Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strangehas monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241299951
ISBN-10: 0241299950
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

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
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
This book is an astonishment . . . a profound oddity, but an absolutely intriguing one
Instantly appealing (with) headlong narrative drive . . . like a MedievalFifty Shades of Grey . . .above all, fun

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