Arabian Love Tales

This volume is a gathering of love stories from the Arabic narrative tradition usually associated with the Thousand and One Nights and related tale-cycles. Typical pieces follow princes, merchants, and jinn through separations, disguises, jealous husbands, and reunions in Baghdad, Cairo, or unnamed cities of the Islamic world. The telling is framed entertainment: wonder, erotic complication, and the reversal of fortune rather than a single novelistic plot. Because the exact selection is not fixed by this title, the book is best read as a themed extract from that larger story-hoard of medieval and later Arabic romance.

Bound in full blue-green cloth decorated in brown and gold, endleaves with a design in green by Sandford. White dust-jacket printed in blue-green and black.