Author:
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: nights, library, classics, modern, thousand, tales, arabian, one
Number of Pages: 1049
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0812972147
ISBN-13: 9780812972146
Authors:A.s. Byatt, Richard Burton,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: nights, library, classics, modern, thousand, tales, arabian, one
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2001-04-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375756752
ISBN-13: 9780375756757
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton’s multivolume translation, and includes Burton&
Authors:J.C Madrus, E.P Mather,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: night, one, nights, thousand, vol, book
Number of Pages: 678
Published: 1990-12-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415045398
ISBN-13: 9780415045391
This first of four volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.
Author: Prince
Publisher: Atria Books
Keywords: nights
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1416554440
ISBN-13: 9781416554448
21 Nights--a first book by Prince and celebrated photographer Randee St. Nicholas is a stunning multimedia volume offering a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics and mystique of one of the most notable and prolific musicians of our time. This beautifully designed photographic essay flows from Prince’s sensational, unprecedented, record-breaking, sold-out 21 concerts in 21 Nights at London’s 02 Arena in 2007. Giving insight into his dueling worlds of performance and solitude, 21 Nights incorporates Prince’s evocative poetry and lyrics to new songs and other selections, and 124 f
Author:
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: nights, arabian
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1420931709
ISBN-13: 9781420931709
Drawing from the famous translation of Sir Richard Burton, "The Arabian Nights" is a selection of the voluminous "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian literature. Many readers will recognize the more famous of these tales: "Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor". These exciting and mystical tales can be found in this uncensored and authoritatively noted edition along with thirty-five additional stories.
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: nights, cocaine
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1582435707
ISBN-13: 9781582435701
When travel writer Charles Prentice arrives at Estrella de Mar, a resort town near Gibraltar populated primarily by British retirees, to find out why his brother Frank has been jailed, he’s shocked to find that Frank has confessed to a spectacular act of arson that left five people dead. Charles tries to find the real culprit by hanging around Estrella de Mar, which one resident describes as "like Chelsea or Greenwich Village in the 1960s. There are theatre and film clubs, a choral society, cordon blue classes.... Stand still for a moment and you find yourself roped into a revival of Wai
Author: Dara Horn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, nights
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 2010-03-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393338320
ISBN-13: 9780393338324
“Slam-bang... superb... masterful... gripping... marvelous.”—Washington Post How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union Army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover, 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. After this harrowing mission, Jacob is recruited to pursue another enemy agent—this time not to murder the spy, but to marry her. Based on real historical figures, this eagerly awaited novel from award-winning author Dara Horn delivers multilayered
