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  • The Arabian Nightmare

    A Novel

    par Robert Irwin ...
    A cult classic that "combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole" ( Publishers Weekly ).The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery.He narrates a complex tangle of dreams and imaginings ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

    Volume 1

    Collections Livre 1 - The Arabian Nights
    Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh

    A Novel

    par Robert Irwin ...
    The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins "a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable" ( The Sunday Times).The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the Harem. But evil ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • For Lust of Knowing

    The Orientalists and Their Enemies

    par Robert Irwin ...
    Robert Irwin’s history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid’s military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideology but by their shared obsession. For Lust of ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Vision

    A Novel

    par Robert Irwin ...
    An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this "immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book" ( The New York Times).The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt.Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Wonders Will Never Cease

    A Novel

    par Robert Irwin ...
    An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones.Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the War of the Roses, when two great houses battled for ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

    par Robert Irwin ...
    Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature. From the earliest surviving fragments of The Thousand and One Nights to the elegant beauty and profound power of the Qur'an - believed by the Islamic faith to contain the actual words of Allah - it ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Exquisite Corpse

    A Novel

    par Robert Irwin ...
    This "off-beat, brisk and darkly comic" historical novel about an artist's romantic obsession with his muse is "consistently clever and inventive." ( The New York Times)Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Robert Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Annotated Arabian Nights

    Tales from 1001 Nights

    Traduit par Yasmine Seale ...
    par Robert Irwin ...
    Collections series The Annotated Books
    **“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Alhambra

    par Robert Irwin ...
    The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada with its fountained courts and gardens and intricate decoration has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing and often mysterious history.Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Muhammad

    par Maxime Rodinson, Robert Irwin ...
    Traduit par Anne Carter ...
    **This “absorbing biography” and classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born (New Yorker).“The most stimulating, balanced and sympathetic secular biography of the Prophet of Islam.” —London Review of Books**Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Satan Wants Me

    par Robert Irwin ...
    SCB COPY Seraphita The story revolves round the angelic and mysterious hermaphrodite Seraphita who seems to inspire love in all she meets. One of Balzac's most unusual novels which will appeal to lovers of the mystical and the supernatural Seraphita will be my master stroke. One can create a Goriot every day but one creates a Seraphita only once in a lifetime. Honore de Balzac Never di Balzac ... En savoir plus

    $9.19 CAD