Arabian Nights: A Companion, The by Robert Irwin (from the SciFan database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)


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	Arabian Nights: A Companion, The, by Robert Irwin


	Nonfiction, first publication in January 1994 , latest edition in January 2004


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	The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times. It explores the history of the translation, and explains the ways in which its contents have been added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, the book uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counterculture of the medieval Near East and the world of the storyteller, the snake charmer, the burglar, the sorcerer, the drug addict, the treasure hunter and the adulterer.


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