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Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Malcolm C. Lyons
4.9/5 (16425 ratings)
Description:On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the '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 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 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, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange. To get started finding Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
496
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
2014
ISBN
0141395052

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Malcolm C. Lyons
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the '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 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 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, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange. To get started finding Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
496
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Release
2014
ISBN
0141395052
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