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Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911238294Author Antoine GallandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store... -
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader by Antoine Galland 9781549948282
Booksplease Price: $9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781549948282Author Antoine GallandFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint CreateSpacePublisher... -
Aladdin a'r Lamp Rhyfeddol Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: Tranzlaty Cymraeg English by Antoine Galland 9781835660683
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835660683Author Antoine GallandFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint TranzlatyPublisher... -
The Man Who Wrote Aladdin: The Life and Times of Hanna Diyab by Hanna Diyab 9781843822288
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.79The origins of 'Aladdin' continue to fascinate scholars and readers of the tales. The story is believed to have first been written in French, by Antoine Galland, having been told to him in Paris in... -
The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines Richard Leeuwen 9781041189213
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Antoine Galland's French translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively... -
The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines Richard van Leeuwen 9789462988798
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13Antoine Galland's French translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively... -
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700 Michele Longino (Duke University, USA) 9781138547803
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.55Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel... -
Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments by Andrei Codrescu 9780691143378
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.82"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist."--Whatever Gets You through the Night Whatever Gets You through the Night is an... -
The Book of Travels: Volume Two by Ḥannā Diyāb
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.33The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of... -
The Book of Travels: Volume One by Ḥannā Diyāb
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.33The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of... -
The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set by Ḥannā Diyāb
RRP: $55.47Booksplease Price: $46.98The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of... -
The Book of Travels by Ḥannā Diyāb 9781479820016
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.27The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of... -
Aladdin: A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta 9781631495168
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.39Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination-and occasionally dark themes-now comes to vibrant new... -
From Samos to Soho: The Unorthodox Life of Joseph Georgirenes, a Greek Archbishop by John Penrose Barron 9783034317887
RRP: $83.27Booksplease Price: $74.30Born on the small Greek island of Melos, Joseph Georgirenes became a monk on Mount Athos and was consecrated as Archbishop of Samos in 1666. Five years later he left his diocese and travelled to... -
A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction by Ellen R. Welch 9781644531396
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.30A Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot's 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Antoine Galland's... -
Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Robert L. Mack
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.94No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided... -
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century Professor Anne E. Duggan 9781350594135
Booksplease Price: $39.04How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known... -
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century by Professor Anne E. Duggan 9781350095229
Booksplease Price: $114.66How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known... -
A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights by Hasan M. El-Shamy
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $56.53In 1704 the French Orientalist Antoin Galland introduced to the Western world a translation of The Thousand and One Nights. Over the course of two subsequent centuries, numerous editions followed... -
The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West by Saree Makdisi 9780199554157
Booksplease Price: $142.36Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian... -
Aladdin: A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.40Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination-and occasionally dark themes-now comes to vibrant new... -
The Arabian Nights by 9781841593616
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05The Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began to appear in the West in the early 18th century,...