Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange: A Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection

by Anonymous and Malcolm C. Lyons

Book Overview

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.'

Dating from at least a millennium ago, these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241299950
• ISBN13: 9780241299951
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher