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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Arabian Nights, Volume 1 (10 Edition) by Malcolm C. Lyons Publisher Comments Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics) by Stephanie Dalley Publisher Comments The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy Publisher Comments Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nightsis based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard F. Burton and A. S. Byatt Publisher Comments Robert Louis Stevenson called it a "a book that captivates in childhood and delights in age".<P>Bennett Cerf selected the tales in this edition in 1932 for the Modern Library as the "most famous and representative" from the multivolume translation... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights, Volume 1: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights (Signet Classics) by Richard F Burton Publisher Comments After King Shahryar had his wife killed for cheating, he began to corrupt-then kill-one virgin a night, as revenge on womankind. Then he meets Scheherazade, who, night after night, saves her own life by telling him fantastical tales of genies, wishes... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Middle Eastern Mythology by S H Hooke Publisher Comments The role of mythology in ritual and in the origins of customs, cults, and hero worship are the fascinating areas covered by this comparative survey. It discusses legends of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, and Canaanites, plus... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mysteries of Mithra by Franz Cumont Publisher Comments The colorful Mithraic religion originated in Persia, enjoyed enormous popularity in Europe, and was ultimately destroyed by Christianity. This definitive treatment of Mithra by a leading authority on classical religions pieces together its mysteries: the... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights, Volume II: More Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights by Sir Richard Francis Burton Publisher Comments Volume two in a collection of tales representing distinctive genres- from fairy tales to erotica-revealing the customs and societies in the medieval Middle East, as told by the mythic Sheherazade.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 New - Mass Market
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Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East by David Leeming Publisher Comments Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization. Leeming begins with... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard F. Burton and A. S. Byatt Publisher Comments Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Folktales from Iraq by Charles G Campbell Publisher Comments Who would not shudder when entering the skeleton-lined cave of the queen of the dead? How would a young man and his sister escape from the prison of a treacherous sultan? How would a poor farmer gain the hand of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights' Entertainments (Oxford World's Classics) by Robert L Mack Publisher Comments The stories contained in this "store house of ingenious fiction" initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Folktales of Iraq by E S Stevens Publisher Comments The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book teems with stories of demons, witches, ogres, and other creatures. Includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Poor Girl and Her Cow," "The Blind Sultan," and 44 other... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kalilah and Dimnah by Thomas Balla Irving Publisher Comments Kalilah and Dimnah: An English version of Bidpai's Fables based upon Ancient Arabic and Spanish Manuscripts. Originally published in hardback in 1980.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights, the Vol II by Zipes Publisher Comments This companion volume to the Signet Classic edition of "Arabian Nights" once again illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic stories--from fairy tales to torrid erotica.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Thousand Nights & One Night #3: Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night by Powys Mathers Publisher Comments This book tells of a world of magical beauty, of the East and its enchantments, and of an art of living which was the product of one of the world's great civilizations.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mesopotamian Myths by Henrietta Mccall Publisher Comments A vast legacy of powerful creative writing was revealed when nineteenth-century scholars managed to decipher the mysterious wedge-shaped symbols of cuneiform script, inscribed on clay tablets over 5,000 years ago by the ancient Mesopotamians. Strikingly... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Armenian Folk-Tales & Fables by Charles Downing Publisher Comments These folk-tales were told by simple people--vine-dressers, farm-laborers, millers--and were preserved by word of mouth, to be repeated for entertainment in the coffee-house, or at home during the long, hard winters. There are fables here, too, selected... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Gods by E O James Publisher Comments This account of the religious history of the ancient world is essential for the proper understanding of the great living faiths, which, directly or indirectly, have arisen from or been influenced by this remarkable center.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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