{"product_id":"9780241299951-tales-of-the-marvellous-and-news-of-the-strange","title":"Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription:\u003ci\u003e 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights \u003c\/i\u003ebut most have never been read in English before. \u003ci\u003eTales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange  \u003c\/i\u003ehas monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943151841377,"sku":"9780241299951","price":11.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32164060.jpg?v=1737016980","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241299951-tales-of-the-marvellous-and-news-of-the-strange","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}