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In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories / Tawfix al-Hakim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- al-Hakim, Tawfix, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ḥakīm, Tawfīq, 1898-1987--Translations into English.
- Ḥakīm, Tawfīq.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This first collection of al-Hakim’s stories to be published in English includes 27 of the author’s best works written from 1927 to 1966. Some inspired by literature and others by Egyptian social conditions, the stories range from mock-autobiographical to science fiction and folk fantasy to allegory and philosophy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Artistes
- The Radium of Happiness
- In the Tavern of Life
- Visiting the Angry Princess
- By the Marble Basin
- A Devilish Scheme
- The Tree of Earthly Rule
- My Donkey and Hypocrisy
- Wedding Night
- Expelled from Paradise
- The World's a Stage
- Satan Triumphs
- Destiny
- The Life of a Literary Character
- Show Me God
- The Letter Carrier
- I'm Death
- Confederation of Sparrows
- In the Year One Million
- Azrael the Barber
- A Woman Who Beat the Devil
- The Unknown Lover
- The Killer Confessed
- The Birth of a Thought
- Boats of the Sun
- The Saints of Tarsus (for Children)
- The Case of the Twenty-First Century
- About the Book
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-68585-828-7
- OCLC:
- 1374540518
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