A Thousand Nights

Author : E. K. Johnston
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1484728998
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Nights written by E. K. Johnston and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. But back in their village her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death stirs the air in it's place. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments. She sees everything as if for the last time. But the first sun sets and rises, and she is not dead. Night after night Lo-Melkhiin comes to her, and listens to the stories she tells and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a cruel ruler. Something went wrong. The words she speaks to him every night are given strange life of their own. She makes things appear. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to rule of a monster.

Author : J.C. Mardrus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134948670
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Vol 2) written by J.C. Mardrus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of this accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian nights.

Author : Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408826046
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Thousand and One Nights written by Hanan Al-Shaykh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple

Author : John Payne
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341799580
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night written by John Payne and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Hanan al-Shaykh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408174731
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Thousand and One Nights written by Hanan al-Shaykh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. The tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising. The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. The great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless drama of human experience.

Author : E. K. Johnston
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1484776283
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spindle written by E. K. Johnston and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most powerful stories encompass a paradox. Spindle is both mythic and true, old beyond reckoning and dazzlingly, gloriously new. You've known this story all your life; you have never heard its like before. The Storyteller Queen lives, and her name is E. K. Johnston." -Rachel Hartman, New York Times best-selling author of Seraphina/DIV DIVThe world is made safe by a woman...but it is a very big world. It has been generations since the Storyteller Queen drove the demon out of her husband and saved her country from fire and blood. Her family has prospered beyond the borders of their village, and two new kingdoms have sprouted on either side of the mountains where the demons are kept prisoner by bright iron, and by the creatures the Storyteller Queen made to keep them contained. But the prison is crumbling. Through years of careful manipulation, a demon has regained her power. She has made one kingdom strong and brought the other to its knees, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. When a princess is born, the demon is ready with the final blow: a curse that will cost the princess her very soul, or force her to destroy her own people to save her life. The threads of magic are tightly spun, binding princess and exiled spinners into a desperate plot to break the curse before the demon can become a queen of men. But the web of power is dangerously tangled--and they may not see the true pattern until it is unspooled.

Author : David Walser
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1606600206
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thousand Nights and One Night written by David Walser and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven stories from "The Arabian Nights", including the tales of Ali Baba and Aladdin's lamp.

Author : J.C Mardrus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134948743
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand and one Nights. Volume 1 written by J.C Mardrus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten’s Calcutta Edition of the original (1839– 42).

Author : Jason Grote
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573663882
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Thousand One written by Jason Grote and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First produced in January 2007 at The Denver Center Theater, Denver, Colorado.

Author : Madeline Hunter
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307565955
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord of a Thousand Nights written by Madeline Hunter and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No woman alive could resist his tantalizing seduction.... Celebrated as “one of the brightest new writers in the genre” (Publishers Weekly), Madeline Hunter has won the hearts of readers with the poignant passion of her love stories and the brilliance of her writing. Now this nationally bestselling, award-winning author delivers her freshest, most tantalizing romance yet... Called the Lord of a Thousand Nights, Ian of Guilford was famed as much for his feats in the bedroom as on the battlefield. But Lady Reyna Graham had no idea of this when, disguised as a courtesan, she passed behind enemy lines with a desperate plan to save her people. Now, sitting in the tent of the dizzyingly handsome warrior who commanded the army outside her gates, the beautiful widow suddenly realized that she had underestimated her foe. For she found herself in the company of a man whose charms were said to be impossible to resist...and who would show no mercy in laying siege to her heart—and body—with every sensual weapon in his arsenal. For the sake of her people, she must not give in ... and she must somehow turn this legendary lover who never lost his heart into a man who would exchange all his thousand nights for one with her....