Three Oriental Tales: History of Nourjahad, Vathek, the Giaour

by Lord Byron, William Beckford, Frances Sheridan, et al.

This engaging volume presents the complete texts of three of the most important, and historically popular, examples of the Oriental tale genre. Supporting contextual material includes samples of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618107312
• ISBN13: 9780618107315
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

From the Editor

Here are some features of this collection that readers might want to know about. It includes the original notes to *Vathek* (the 1816 version) and *The Giaour* and presents them as they were intended to be presented: in separate sections following each work. Editorial glosses and footnotes, on the other hand, are at the bottom of each page--my students, who don't like hunting for endnotes, tell me this makes a real difference for them. In addition to the three main works, *Three Oriental Tales* includes a sample from *The Arabian Nights* and Oriental tales from *The Spectator*, Johnson's *Rambler*, Goldsmith's *Citizen of the World* (Letter 33, an Orientalist send-up of Orientalism), and the complete text of Maria Edgeworth's "Murad the Unlucky." It also includes Francis Jeffrey's contemporary review of *The Giaour* and a set of recent critical responses to the tales, plus a chronology of literary Orientalism in Britain from the early translations of *The Arabian Nights* to Byron's death in 1824.