{"product_id":"9780141395050","title":"Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription:\u003ci\u003e 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights \u003c\/i\u003ebut most have never been read in English before. \u003ci\u003eTales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange  \u003c\/i\u003ehas monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182828404976,"sku":"9780141395050","price":12.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141395050_p0.jpg?v=1763655454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141395050","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}