Fables of the East
Subtitle: selected tales, 1662-1785
By: edited by Ros Ballaster.
Contributors: Ballaster, Rosalind.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Fables, Oriental; Fables
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From The Arabian nights entertainments, translated by Antoine Galland (1704-1717); title: "The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl" from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699); title: "The history of Commladeve" from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768); title: "The adventures of Urad" from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764); title: "The history of the Christian eunuch" from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1717); title: Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712; title: Horace Walpole, "Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale" from Hieroglyphic tales (1785); title: "A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan" from François Bernier, a continuation of The historie of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672); title: From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by François Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709); title: From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763); title: From Giovanni Paolo Marana, Letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1696); title: From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722); title: From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1672).