The Book of Ten Nights and a Night

The Book of Ten Nights and a Night

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  • Author: John Barth
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 9780618562084
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

The Book of Ten Nights and a Night offers both a keen introduction to the genius of John Barth and a deeply human argument for the enduring value of literature. Gathering stories written throughout this postmodern master's long career, the collection spans his entire range of styles, from straightforward narrative to experimental metafiction. In the time immediately following September 11, 2001, the veteran writer Graybard spends eleven nights with a nubile muse named WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). The two lovers debate the meaning and relevance of writing and storytelling in the wake of disaster, telling a new tale each night in the tradition of Scheherazade. The Book of Ten Nights and a Night exhibits the thrilling blend of playfulness and illuminating insight that have marked Barth as one of America's most distinguished writers.


Ten Nights in a Bar-room, and what I Saw There

Ten Nights in a Bar-room, and what I Saw There

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  • Author: Timothy Shay Arthur
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258


Ten Nights' Dreams and Our Cat's Grave

Ten Nights' Dreams and Our Cat's Grave

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  • Author: Sōseki Natsume
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Dreams
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140


Ten Nights Dreaming

Ten Nights Dreaming

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  • Author: Natsume Soseki
  • Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
  • ISBN: 0486807231
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 100

A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking reflections on fear, death, and loneliness. Their settings range from the Meiji period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the era in which the tales were written, to the prehistoric Age of the Gods; the twelfth-century Kamakura period, in which the samurai class emerged; and the remote future. A scholar of British literature, author Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was also a composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. The stories of Ten Nights Dreaming, which were originally published as a newspaper serial, constitute milestones of Japanese fantasy. Like Sōseki's other writings, they have had a profound effect on readers, writers, and filmmakers. This edition features an expert new English translation by Matt Treyvaud, who has translated the story "The Cat's Grave" for this work as well.


The Night Counter

The Night Counter

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  • Author: Alia Yunis
  • Publisher: Crown
  • ISBN: 0307453642
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

"An immigrant-ethnic cocktail laced with political oppression, but before shaking, [Alia Yunis] adds Scheherazade, the fabled storyteller who kept herself alive by distracting her tyrannical husband for a thousand and one nights." --Carolyn See, Washington Post After 85 years, Fatima knows that she is dying because for the last 991 days she has been visited by the immortal storyteller from The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade. Just as Scheherazade spun magical stories for 1,001 nights to save her own life, Fatima has spent each night telling Scheherazade her life stories. But with only nine days left before her death, Fatima has a few loose ends to tie up. She must find a wife for her openly gay grandson, teach Arabic (and birth control) to her 17-year-old great-granddaughter, make amends with her estranged husband, and decide which of her troublesome children should inherit her family's home in Lebanon--a house she herself has not seen in nearly 70 years. Fatima’s children are spread far apart and are wrapped up in their own chaotic lives seemingly disinterested in their mother and their inheritances. But as she weaves stories of her husband, children, and grandchildren, Fatima brings together a family that is both capricious and steadfast, affectionate and also smothering, connected yet terribly alone. Taken all together, they present a striking and surprising tapestry of modern Arab American life. Shifting between America and Lebanon over the last hundred years, Alia Yunis crafts a bewitching debut novel imbued with great humanity, imagination, family drama and a touch of magic realism. Be prepared to feel utterly charmed.


Ten Nights' Dreams

Ten Nights' Dreams

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  • Author: Sōseki Natsume
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing
  • ISBN: 1552123952
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 80

"Ten Nights' Dreams is a collection of ten short stories or dreams. Among the ten nights, the first, second, third, and fifth nights start with the same sentence, "This is the dream I dreamed." Each dream has a surrealistic atmosphere. Some are funny, and others are grotesquely weird. Did Soseki try to express what he actually dreamed? Or was his subconscious emerging spontaneously in the form of narrative dream?"--Page 4 of cover


The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

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  • Author: John Payne
  • Publisher: Franklin Classics
  • ISBN: 9780341799580
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 410

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights

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  • Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1408826046
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple


At Night’s End

At Night’s End

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  • Author: Nir Baram
  • Publisher: Text Publishing
  • ISBN: 1922330175
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

An exciting new English translation of Israel’s #1 bestselling literary novelist Nir Baram


Ten Nights of Dream, Hearing Things, The Heredity of Taste

Ten Nights of Dream, Hearing Things, The Heredity of Taste

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  • Author: 夏目漱石
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216