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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Stranger Magic
Author: Marina WarnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Author: Geraldine McCaughreanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192753755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Book of a Thousand Days
Author: Shannon HalePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599903784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction
Author: Richard van LeeuwenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436269X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature. This study analyses the influence of Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, on 20th-century prose from all over the world. Works of approximately forty authors are examined: those who were crucial to the development of the main currents in 20th-century fiction, such as modernism, magical realism and post-modernism. The book contains six thematic sections divided into chapters discussing two or three authors/works, each from a narratological perspective and supplemented by references to the cultural and literary context. It is shown how Thousand and One Nights became deeply rooted in modern world literature especially in phases of renewal and experiment.
Vikram and the Vampire
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Hindi
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Nights of Plague
Author: Orhan PamukPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria—the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island—an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island’s governor and local administration and the people’s refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.