The Thousand And One Days
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Author | : Shannon Hale |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408812991 |
When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious and locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she has her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt, the princess eats the food in their meagre store as if she were still at court, and Dashti soon realises they must either escape or slowly starve. But during their captivity, resourceful Dashti discovers that there is something far more sinister behind her princess's fears of marrying the prince, and when they do break free from the tower, they find a land laid to waste and the kingdom destroyed. They were safe in the tower, now they are at the mercy of the evil prince with a terrible secret. Thrilling, captivating, and a masterful example of storytelling at its best. The princess's maid is a feisty and thoroughly modern heroine, in this wonderfully timeless story.
Author | : Hanan Al-Shaykh |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408826046 |
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Author | : J.C. Mardrus |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134948670 |
The second volume of this accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian nights.
Author | : Hanan al-Shaykh |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408174731 |
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. The tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising. The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. The great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless drama of human experience.
Author | : François Pétis de La Croix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1765 |
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Author | : John Payne |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780341799580 |
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Author | : Naguib Mahfouz |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101974710 |
The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.
Author | : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Politics, Practical |
ISBN | : |
"The Special Assistant to President Kennedy describes the historic events in which John F. Kennedy participated during his three years in the White House." --
Author | : J.C Mardrus |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134948743 |
First Published in 1986. For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten’s Calcutta Edition of the original (1839– 42).
Author | : Peter Furtado |
Publisher | : Pier 9 |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781922351739 |
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