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Tales Of the Marvellous and News Of the Strange (Translation)
[Paperback - 2014]
malcolm c. lyons
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Category: Literature
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Publisher: Penguin Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780241299951 | Pages: 0
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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.

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Books can be attributed to "Anonymous" for several reasons:* They are officially published under that name* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific authorBooks whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed toUnknown.See also:Anonymous

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