Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426325401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426325401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426325401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
One Thousand and One Nights
Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408826046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408826046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author:
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Tales from 1,001 Nights
Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
The Arabian Nights
Author: Wafa' Tarnowska
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
From Lebanese writer Wafa' Tarnowska and Spanish artist Carole Hénaff, this magnificent new edition of The Arabian Nights brings together famous and less familiar tales from A Thousand and One Nights and includes the frame story of Shahrazade and Shahriyar.
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
From Lebanese writer Wafa' Tarnowska and Spanish artist Carole Hénaff, this magnificent new edition of The Arabian Nights brings together famous and less familiar tales from A Thousand and One Nights and includes the frame story of Shahrazade and Shahriyar.
The Arabian Nights
Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: Viking
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times. It explores the history of the translation, and explains the ways in which its contents have been added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, the book uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counterculture 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.
Publisher: Viking
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times. It explores the history of the translation, and explains the ways in which its contents have been added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, the book uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counterculture 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.
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author: Naomi Lewis
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780805004045
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Twenty-seven of the tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780805004045
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Twenty-seven of the tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights
Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1407
Book Description
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1407
Book Description
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author: Laurence Housman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description