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The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times. It also explores the history of the translation, and explains the ways its contents have been... read more

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As Jorge Luis Borges once observed, 'Nothing is as consubstantial with literature and its modest mystery as the questions raised by a translation.'

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  1. Robert Irwin (Author)

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