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Shelfari edited the description of The Arabian Nights: A Companion Sunday, August 2 2009.

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 added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, the book uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counterculture of the medieval Near East and the world of the story-teller, the snake charmer, the burglar, the sorcerer, the drug addict, the treasure hunter and the adulterer.

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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Arabian Nights: A Companion Sunday, July 26 2009.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Arabian Nights: A Companion Friday, July 17 2009.

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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