Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

by Malcolm Lyons

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A great cache of ancient, magical stories in the same tradition as The Arabian Nights 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.

Author: Malcolm Lyons
Format: Paperback, 496 pages, 130mm x 198mm, 339 g
Published: 2016, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Historical & Mythological Fiction

Vendor: Book Grocer
SKU: 9780241299951-RETAIL
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A great cache of ancient, magical stories in the same tradition as The Arabian Nights 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.