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Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
Lyons Malcolm
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Description for Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 334.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241299951
SKU
V9780241299951
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About Lyons Malcolm
Malcolm C. Lyons is also 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: ... Read more
Reviews for Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
Instantly appealing (with) headlong narrative drive . . . like a Medieval Fifty Shades of Grey . . . above all, fun
Guardian
This book is an astonishment . . . a profound oddity, but an absolutely intriguing one
Scotland on Sunday
Offers a gateway to a different world of language and ideas, florid, wildly descriptive ... Read more
Guardian
This book is an astonishment . . . a profound oddity, but an absolutely intriguing one
Scotland on Sunday
Offers a gateway to a different world of language and ideas, florid, wildly descriptive ... Read more