# Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

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- Authors: [Malcolm Lyons](https://www.bookquiver.com/malcolm-lyons)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4129-995-1
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dating 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 The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.