Marvellous Thieves

“A fascinating work of cultural and literary history . . . An insightful examination of [the Arabian Nights ] and the fraught complexities of translation.” — Kirkus Reviews Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the  Arabian Nights  is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection i