Arabian Love Tales

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Arabian Love Tales
Folio Society
Fantasy & Fairy Tales

Arabian Love Tales

Anonymous
Edition year 1949
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Lettice Sandford
Translator Powys Mathers
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 246
Dimensions 22.5 × 17.2 cm

Edition details

Arabian Love Tales, Being Romances Drawn from the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, by Anonymous, rendered into English from the literal French translations of Dr J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers, 12 full-page line drawings by Lettice Sandford. Bound in full blue-green cloth decorated in brown and gold, endleaves with a design in green by Sandford. White dust-jacket printed in blue-green and black. 246pp. 22.5x17.2cm.

About the book

Arabian Love Tales brings together stories of romance, passion and adventure drawn from Middle Eastern literary traditions. The tales feature lovers separated by family, fate or circumstance, often accompanied by poetry, wit and dramatic reversals. The collection reflects a long storytelling tradition in which love may inspire courage, sacrifice, disguise and extraordinary journeys.

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