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CyberRead carries over 40,000 of your favorite books from both major and independent publishers for your PDA and PC Book Categories Search Books Get Reader Software My Account ... Customer Support All Formats Mobipocket Microsoft Reader Adobe Acrobat PDF Microsoft Word Product Details All Categories A BOSWELL IN BAGHDAD - With Diversions Mobipocket Reader (430.00 Kb)
Price: Author: LUCAS, E. V. Publisher: eBookbase ( All Products by eBookbase Publish Date: ISBN: Category: Short Stories Language: English Type: Downloadable Formats: Summary: First Published in 1917
from the INTRODUCTORY:
A curious and very entertaining work lies before me, or, to be more accurate, ramparts me, for it is in four ponderous volumes, capable, each, even in less powerful hands than those of the Great Lexicographer, of felling a bookseller. At these volumes I have been sipping, beelike, at odd times for some years, and I now propose to yield some of the honeythe season having become timely, since the great majority of the heroes of its thousands of pages hail from Baghdad; and Baghdad, after all its wonderful and intact Oriental past, is to-day under Britain's thumb. The title of the book is Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary , translated from the Arabic by Bn Mac Guckin de Slane, and printed in Paris for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1842-71, some centuries after it was written, for its author was dead before Edward II ascended the English throne. Who would expect Sir Sidney Lee to have had so remote an exemplar? | |
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