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Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays (hardback)
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Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays (hardback)
Current price: $32.00
Barnes and Noble
Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays (hardback)
Current price: $32.00
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before he became the famous novelist we know today from
, learned his profession writing for the stage. Many of those youthful plays have been discovered for the first time, and three are translated into English for the first time in
. In
, Verne offers a humorous account of a nautical adventure interrupted by pirates. In
, he relates a love affair between the dancer, and the painter Jacques-Louis David, creating a realistic historical background as well as a deeply-felt romance. And in
, Verne draws upon the world of the Arabian Nights to tell how the Sultan and the story-telling Scheherazade are finally united in marriage.