| Tales from the Arabic - Volume 2 (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Payne, John (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1406567159 ISBN-13: 9781406567151 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $14.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: John Payne (1842-1916) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio's Decameron and The Arabian Nights. Amongst his other works are The Masque of Shadows and Other Poems (1870), Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp (1889), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nisahpour (1898), The Poems of Hafiz (1901), The Descent of the Dove and Other Poems (1902), Stories of Boccaccio (1903) and Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse (1904). |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arab World |