Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

A first English-language translation of a definitive collection of medieval Arab fantasy tales is comprised of works that survived in a single manuscript library from Istanbul and is presented to reflect the interests of original audiences.

Bericht

"It's hard to imagine shaking off the dust of this thousand-year-old volume of stories (recently discovered in an Istanbul library) and seeing them for the first time. As thoughtful as they are wondrous, these tales run the gamut: epic and domestic, charming and chilling, realistic and magical, with prose like a jewel box. If it looks scholarly at first glance, take heart; by the time God folds up the desert to help a lost heroine find her way across a strange land, this collection will have made itself at home in your imagination."
- NPR , "Guide To 2015's Great Reads"

"A revelation-a real classic of popular literature, so fluent that it is not just addictive reading but a genuine pleasure to sit down and lose yourself."
- Sunday Times

"Offers a gateway to a different world of language and ideas, florid, wildly descriptive and are a powerful reminder of the human need for story . . . irresistible."
- The Independent

"This book is an astonishment . . . a profound oddity, but an absolutely intriguing one."
- Scotland on Sunday

"Instantly appealing [with] headlong narrative drive . . . above all, fun."
- The Guardian

"Lyons's translation is fluent and entertaining...Coupled with an informative introduction by Robert Irwin, author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion , this book is a welcome and recommended addition to those who enjoy the Arabian Nights .
- Library Journal

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Coralie Bickford-Smith, Robert Irwin, Malcolm C. Lyons
• Mitarbeit: Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustration), Robert Irwin (Herausgeber), Robert Irwin (Einführung), Malcolm C. Lyons (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9780141395036
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139503-6
• Seiten: 496
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 245 mm x 45 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Hardcover Classics; A Penguin Classics Hardcover; Penguin Classics; A Penguin Classics Hardcover; Hardcover Classics
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Märchen, Sagen, Legenden