Sunday, December 21, 2014

THE FADHAIL AMAAL OF THE ANCIENT ARABS


A Book of Strange and Wonderful Tales and its Eminent Translator



Crocodiles have pearls in their ears; statues move and speak. The first English translation of a collection of Arab fantasy stories opens a window on to the imaginings of the medieval mind. Professor Malcolm Lyons has brought alive for the modern reader the gripping yarns in Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange.