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Tales of Enchantment

by the language of signs and gesture
Sanujit Ghose
Type: Print Book
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
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Baron Silvestre de Sacy like Prof. Galland, felt that the Thousand Nights was first composed in Syria and written in a plain dialect for the poor people. Many European authors while trying to translate the tales had lamented that they failed to find a copy of the original or an authentic manuscript. They possibly never heard of the superstition that no one could read through such a book without dying - the superstition going back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. The other practical side was that there was no author of those stories putting down all of them together in a book. The scholars well versed with Arabia stated that the stories were strung together by men who commanded themselves to the kings and emperors by telling them only from memory.
All such tales were brought by Crusaders, by Mongol missionaries, by Gypsies, by Jews, by traders, by...

About the Author

Sanujit Ghose, born in July 1940, joined IAS in 1964 and had a long career. Since childhood he was an eager listener to the unending stream of fables and stories from his great grandmother.
His first posting was in 1967 at a tribal area in Odisha. By chance, he could buy 16 volumes of The Book of the Thousand and One Nights privately published by Burton Club, London in 1888. During the five years to go through them, the fascinating tales revealed that a thousand years ago the great cities of Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo raced ahead of the Western world. Arab caliphate was a dynamic superpower – beacon of learning, tolerance and trade.
He obtained The Ocean of Story - Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara in ten volumes edited by N. M. Penzer. Next was Gutenberg EBook The Adventures of Ten Princes by P. W. Jacob of the Dasakumaracharitam.
In 1924...

Book Details

ISBN: 9789383303939
Publisher: Swayam Books, New Delhi
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 5"x8"
Interior Pages: B&W
Binding: Paperback (Perfect Binding)
Availability: In Stock (Print on Demand)

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