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Inanna by Diane Wolkstein Publisher Comments A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy Publisher Comments The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 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 $9.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Thousand & One Arabian Nights by Geraldi Mccaughrean Publisher Comments Day after day King Shahryar marries a new wife, only to have her put to death the following morning. Hundreds of wives have died before Shahrazad comes along. On the night of her wedding, Shahrazad begins to tell the king a story. But she hasn't time to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $1.48 Used - Hardcover
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The Faces of God by Jacob Rabinowitz Publisher Comments It is now well known that the Hebrew prophets, even as they denounced Canaanite idolatry, borrowed freely from its mythic imagery and poetry. The Faces of God is the first book to analyze the Canaanite content in Hebrew scripture for its inner coherence,... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tales of the Arabrian Nights by H W Dulcken Publisher Comments In this superbly illustrated volume you will find dozens of wonderful stories of genies and jinns (those fantastic spirits that, according to Muslim folklore, inhabit the earth in various forms and exercise supernatural power), of magic carpets, Caliph... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.95 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 $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arab Folktales by Inea Bushnaq Publisher Comments Out of alleys of Cairo and Bedouin tents, from the Moroccan laborers and Syrian peasants, this collection of 130 tales comes from Arab worlds from North Africa to the Holy Land.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) by N J Dawood Publisher Comments A superb and unexpurgated translation of the finest and best known of the Tales. Originating from India, Persia and Arabia, the Tales from the Thousand and One Nights represent the lively expression of a lay and secular imagination in revolt against... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 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) Your price: $6.95 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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang Publisher Comments 26 magical tales of beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, and talking birds in: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Sinbad the Sailor," "Noureddin and the Fair Persian," "Merchant of Bagdad," and more. 66 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 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: $3.50 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: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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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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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: $6.95 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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Arabian Nights, Volume 1: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights (Signet Classics) by Richard Francis 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: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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