The Arabian Nights
Subtitle: A Companion
Edition: Revised Edition edition
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: January 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781860649837
Subjects: Folklore; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary theory; Arabic Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Arabic; Literary Criticism; Arabian peninsula; Persian Empire; Folklore & Mythology; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern; Middle East; Mille et une nuits; Tales
First sentence: As Jorge Luis Borges once observed, 'Nothing is as consubstantial with literature and its modest mystery as the questions raised by a translation.'