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e. One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) [ 1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition ( c. 1706–1721 ), which ...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...
MLCM 2005/00074 (P) PR9499.3.B. One Night @ the Call Center is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat, first published in 2005. [ 1] The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working at a call center in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. The themes involve the anxieties and insecurities of the young Indian middle class, such as career ...
The first Russian translation of One Thousand and One Nights, in Russian: Тысяча и одна ночь ( Týsjača i odná nočʹ ), was made by Alexey Filatyev in 1763–1774. [ 8] It was based on Galland's translation and consisted of 12 volumes. [ 8] Later Russian translations were also based on European translations.
The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments. Originally planned as a six-book series with the publication of The Eye of the World in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and three companion ...
The Last Airbender is a live-action film based on the first season of the animated television series and had a theatrical release on July 1, 2010. The film, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, [ 36][ 37] was universally panned by critics, audiences and fans of the series alike and grossed $319 million on a $150 million budget.
352. ISBN. 978-0-553-29099-8. OCLC. 24434629. " Nightfall " [ 1] is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many ...
The Summer I Turned Pretty (trilogy) The Summer I Turned Pretty. (trilogy) The Summer I Turned Pretty is a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by American author Jenny Han, and published by Simon & Schuster. The series includes The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009), It's Not Summer Without You (2010), and We'll Always Have Summer (2011).