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Fables of the East : selected tales, 1662-1785

Title
Fables of the East : selected tales, 1662-1785 / edited by Ros Ballaster.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors
Ballaster, Rosalind.
Description
vii, 277 pages; 23 cm
Summary
This is a selection of the travel and fictional texts which transported 18th century readers to the exciting and exotic territories of Mughal India, Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia and Confucian China.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • fables.
  • Fables
  • Fables.
  • Anthologie.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
From The Arabian nights entertainments, 'translated' by Antoine Galland (1704-1715) -- '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 (1727) -- 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 memories 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, The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1694) -- From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722) -- From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1762).
ISBN
  • 0199267340
  • 0199267359
  • 9780199267347
  • 9780199267354
LCCN
  • 2005020146
  • 9780199267347
  • 9780199267354
OCLC
  • ocm60837767
  • 60837767
  • SCSB-14742450
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library