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Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights

10 best books like Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous): French Folktales, Arab Folktales, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Legends of Valor, The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm, Volume 2, Mythologies, Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

French Folktales
AuthorHenri Pourrat
ISBN0679748334
Selected from Henri Pourrat's classic Le tresor des contes, one of the finest folktale collections in the world, these one-hundred-odd legends, fairy tales, devotional pieces, jokes, and animal stories from the rural provinces of France comprise a magical volume. Fairies, changelings, giants,...
Arab Folktales
AuthorInea Bushnaq
ISBN0394751795
While containing a broad sampling of folktales from the Arab people, there are a few problems that consistently bothered me about this book. The author, in her commentary, claims that "the true Arab is the desert nomad," an idea which folklorist Dwight Reynolds has said is culturally inaccurate and...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
Legends of Valor
AuthorBrendan Lehane
ISBN0809452219
This is almost like reading two different books. I was convinced I was going to give this book a 2-star rating based on the first half. It starts with a collection of legends about an Irish hero named Cuchulain. Many of the legends have tons of internal references, and the text quite often tells you to (see...
The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm, Volume 2
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0553212516
Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions...
Mythologies
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0684826216
Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0451526481
This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
AuthorHoward Norman
ISBN0375702679
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
AuthorVance Randolph
ISBN0252013646
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman,...
Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature
AuthorRobert Irwin
ISBN0385721552
Spanning the fifth to sixteenth centuries and societies that range from Afghanistan to Spain, this anthology is a testament to the astonishing grandeur and variety of classical Arabic literature. Here are excerpts from dozens of works–both renowned (The Qur’an, The Thousand and One Nights)...
The Complete Works of François Rabelais
AuthorFrançois Rabelais
ISBN0520064011
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own...
Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Abridged Edition
AuthorLuo Guanzhong
ISBN0520215850
Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0192840428
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.

This volume celebrates...
The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales
AuthorDiane Wolkstein
ISBN0805210776
When Diane Wolkstein, herself a well-known storyteller traveled throughout the Haitian countryside in search of stories, she harvested a rich collection of twenty-seven tales, each of which is illuminated by fascinating introductory notes. From orange trees growing at the command of a child to...
The Major Works
AuthorJohn Milton
At long last I completed reading Milton’s The Major Works, a tome that I’ve been working on for a month, finding it to be alternately interesting and boring, excellently organized, progressing sequentially through Milton’s shorter poetry, his prose writings - mostly political - , “Paradise...
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
AuthorJoanna Cole
ISBN0385189494
A great compendium of stories with the common hidden theme which you can find if you read them with your heart.

Some favorites:

Maid Lena: This story reveals that the source of our lack of energy and courage is the result of something being “dead at our center,” and the necessity...
Sand Daughter
AuthorSarah Bryant
ISBN1905005229
I undertook this because it’s set on the Muslim side of the Crusades. Mostly in Crusades fiction we get only a cursory glimpse of the societies I’m more interested in and that’s frustrating. Here it’s the Franj who are only seen from the inside now and then. So, I loved the setting straight away,...
The Adventures of Amir Hamza
AuthorGhalib Lakhnavi
ISBN0679643540
In the tradition of such beloved classics as "The Thousand and One Nights" and the Persian" Shahnameh," here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic, "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" (Dastan-e Amir Hamza)—a panoramic tale of magic and passion, and a classic hero's...
Collected Ancient Greek Novels
AuthorBryan P. Reardon
ISBN0520043065
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories...
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)
AuthorMatteo Maria Boiardo
ISBN1932559019
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 4)
AuthorRosemary Border
ISBN0194230325
P/s: Because my bad English and lack of time so I don't have the time to translate this review to English at the moment. When I reread this book, I may translate it. Sorry :<
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Capitalism 4.0: Economics, Politics, and Markets After the Crisis
AuthorAnatole Kaletsky
ISBN1586488716
In early 2009, many economists, financiers, and media pundits were confidently predicting the end of the American-led capitalism that has shaped history and economics for the past 100 years. Yet the U.S. economic model, far from being discredited, may be strengthened by the financial crisis.In...
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