Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0141395036
- ISBN 13
- 9780141395036
- Seller
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Umea, Sweden
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About This Item
Original Hardcover. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. | | Original Hardcover | 447 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 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 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 this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel (SE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB-145106238
- Title
- Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
- Format/Binding
- Original Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0141395036
- ISBN 13
- 9780141395036
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2015-02
Terms of Sale
h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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About the Seller
h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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Umea
About h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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