An edition of Fables of the East (2005)

Fables of the East

selected tales, 1662-1785

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An edition of Fables of the East (2005)

Fables of the East

selected tales, 1662-1785

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Fables of the East: selected tales, 1662-1785
2005, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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Table of Contents

From The Arabian nights entertainments, translated by Antoine Galland (1704-1717)
"The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl" from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699)
"The history of Commladeve" from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768)
"The adventures of Urad" from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764)
"The history of the Christian eunuch" from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1717)
Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712
Horace Walpole, "Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale" from Hieroglyphic tales (1785)
"A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan" from François Bernier, a continuation of The historie of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672)
From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by François Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709)
From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763)
From Giovanni Paolo Marana, Letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1696)
From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722)
From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1672).

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Oxford, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
398.2/095
Library of Congress
PN981 .F33 2005, PR1127

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL3404724M
Internet Archive
fableseastselect00ball
ISBN 10
0199267340, 0199267359
LCCN
2005020146
OCLC/WorldCat
60837767
Library Thing
1139366
Goodreads
738570
900429

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