Tales of the marvellous and news of the strange

By M. C. Lyons

Subjects: Translations into English, Fiction, short stories (single author), Arabic Short stories

Description: Dating from at least a millennium ago, this title features the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. It features monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.