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The Arabian Nights
Achebe and African writers
Prize-winning Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, has taken the role of Editorial Adviser for the new Penguin African Writers Series: 'The time has come for Africans to tell their own stories', he says.
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The Arabian Nights
Now available in paperback is the first complete translation since 1880 of The Arabian Nights, one of the best-known and most influential classics of world literature.
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