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Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights

Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights

Horta, Paulo Lemos

Paperback

Literary CriticismMythology & FolkloreGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0674986598
ISBN13: 9780674986596
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Arabian Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests.

Marvellous Thieves, which draws on hitherto neglected sources, is a brilliant, fluent and original work of literary scholarship.

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