Author: George Meredith
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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George Meredith's "The Shaving of Shagpat" is a fantastical tale inspired by Arabian folklore. Set in a mythical Arabian city, the story revolves around Shagpat, a barber, and his quest to shave the magical hair of Shagpat. As he embarks on this journey, he encounters various enchanting characters and faces numerous challenges. Meredith's rich prose and imaginative storytelling transport readers to a world of magic, mystery, and adventure, reminiscent of the tales from "One Thousand and One Nights.

Author: George Meredith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387031432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: George Meredith
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041629587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A burlesque of the Oriental type of story.

Author: Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 185109640X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 950

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The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources. The tales of the Arabian Nights have long been the focus of scholarly research and critique, but no English language work has ever attempted an all-embracing treatment of them. The fruit of years of research, The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work introducing both the Arabian Nights and the context of their genesis and aftermath in Near Eastern, European, and world culture. Editors Ulrich Marzolph, one of the world's foremost scholars of Near Eastern narrative culture, and Richard van Leeuwen, a prominent scholar of the Arabian Nights, present detailed, authoritative, and up-to-date research on virtually all aspects of the tales, including major protagonists, themes, important translations, textual history, adaptations, reworkings, works inspired by the Arabian Nights, and aspects of literary theory, and provide extensive bibliographies for each tale. In addition to the 800+ encyclopedic entries and numerous essays, the work introduces research that has not previously been published, making it an invaluable resource to scholars, educators, students, and the general public, as well as an essential addition to the core collection of academic and public libraries.

Author: Dr. Mahmoud F. Al-Ali
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493114530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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The Arabian Nights is a composite work consisting of popular stories originally transmitted orally and developed during several centuries, with material added somewhat haphazardly at different periods and places. This study was devoted to the impact of The Arabian Nights on four novelists of the nineteenth century: Charlotte Bront, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, and Robert Louis Stevenson. These authors were selected on the ground of their life spans, which encompassed almost the whole century. Because they are among the masters of the English novel, it is reasonable to assume that they did not content themselves with mere imitations resulting in pseudo-oriental tales. Their original creations assimilated the influences from The Arabian Nights, forming new unified structures with interwoven references and allusions, which are to be redetected.

Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is. Far from being a batch of stories for children, "The Arabian Nights" contains hundreds of narratives of all kinds - fables, epics, erotica, debates, fairy tales, political allegories, mystical anecdotes and comedies. It is a labyrinth of stories within stories. Widely held in contempt in the Middle East for its frivolity and occasional obscenity, the work has nevertheless had a major influence on European and American culture, to the extent that the story collection must be considered as a key work in Western literature. A full understanding of the writings of Voltaire, Dickens, Melville, Proust and Borges, or indeed of the origins of science fiction, is impossible without some familiarity with the stories of the "Nights". This companion aims to guide the reader into this labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times, and explores the history of translation and imitation. Above all, it uses the stories as a guide to the social history and counter-culture of the medieval Near East and the world of the storyteller, the snake charmer, the burglar, the sorcerer, the drug-addict, the treasure hunter and the adulterer.

Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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