The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS) also called The Arabian Nights. All 16 volumes (mobi) (Modern Library) by MobileReference $5.99
This is an electronic edition of the complete collection: all 16 volumes, complemented by translator biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every volume, chapter and footnote. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and...

The Arabian Nights (Norton Critical Editions) by Daniel Heller-Roazen $13.83
This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales appeared in...

Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran by Castle Books $12.99
This represents the most comprehensive volume of works the Lebanese poet and philosopher ever published. His enriching stories, poems, verse and parables are collected into a beautifully bound collector's edition.

Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition by Zed Books $14.95
"All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand. And because I am a prostitute, I hid my fear under layers of make-up." --ExcerptThis is a new edition of the best-selling novel with a specially commissioned new Foreword by...

The Madman: His Parables and Poems by Kahlil Gibran $3.49
An Unabridged Edition To Include Numerous Illustrations By The Author: The Madman, God, My Friend, The Scarecrow, The Sleep-Walkers, The Wise Dog, The Two Hermits, On Giving And Taking, The Seven Selves, War, The Fox, The Wise King, Ambition, The New Pleasure, The Other Language, The Pomegranate, The Two Cages, The Three Ants, The Grave-Digger, On The Steps Of The Temple, The Blessed City, The...

Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press $35.00
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.

Women Without Men: A Novella (Middle East Literature in Translation) by Kamran Talattof $22.95
"Using the techniques of both the fabulist and the polemicist, Parsipur continues her protest against traditional Persian gender relations in this charming, powerful novella."—Publishers Weekly A modern literary masterpiece, Women Without Men creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of life in contemporary Iran. Internationally acclaimed writer Shahrnush Parsipur follows the...

Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes (Annotated) by $29.99
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees ofdamnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid thecivilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divinedestiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--thedegradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman throughhunger, the crippling of children through lack of...

Wild Thorns by Trevor Le Glassick $9.95
Wild Thorns is a chronicle of life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. As the novel opens, Usama, a young Palestinian, is returning there from the Gulf, where he has been working as a translator. A supporter of the resistance movement, he has come home on a mission: to blow up the buses that transport Palestinian workers into Israel every day. But Usama finds a far more complicated reality than he...

Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales by American University in Cairo Press $17.95
The forces of law and order disturb a district's too-perfect peace at the dawn of Egyptian civilization. A wise and popular pharaoh is betrayed by his own son, and by his dearest friends - then makes a most peculiar decision. A mummy returns to life after three thousand years, to confront the arrogant new race that now rules the land. A favored prince flees to a faraway country when the king dies...