Noodleheads and Nincompoops!  Knuckleheads and Numskulls!  Mooncalfs and Ninnyhammers!  Just don't call them stupids or dummies.  A celebrated jest-book with which the name W.A. Clouston is famously associated, "noodle stories" are usually simple and brief - a few are little more than witty proverbs - often told to younger children, noodles stories appeal to all ages and nimbly across many cultural barriers.  Almost always humorous and entertaining, there is some kind of twisted logic to Clouston's stories.  Who is really the fool?  What of silliness that resides in all of us?  These crafty tales enable us to laugh at our imperfect selves - and that is why the noodle stories live on, fresh and revealing as ever.  "My design has been to bring together, from widely scattered sources, many of which are probably unknown or inaccessible to ordinary readers, the best of this class of humorous narratives, in the oldest existing.forms.  My aim has been not only to compile an amusing story-book, but to illustrate to some extent the migrations of popular fictions from country to country."  - W.A. Clouston

Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons or Fools and Their Follies

Politics & Social Sciences

Clouston, W. A.

Social Sciences

Gale/Cengage Learning

The Book of Sindib?d; or, the Story of the King, his Son, the Damsel, and the Seven vaz?rs

History

BiblioLife

A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu

Book of Wise Sayings

Religion & Spirituality

Dodo Pr

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Echo Library

Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

New Age & Spirituality

The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons Or Fools and Their Follies

Literature & Fiction

IndyPublish

<p>"This is an anthology of 19th century Orientalist translations of Arabian poetry, many of which are very rare, as is this particular book. Most of the included works either predated Muhammed or were contemporary, so there are many fascinating bits of pre-Islamic lore. Included is the Moallakat, or the 'Hanged' Poems, a collection of seven pre-Islamic poets whose works were once displayed (i.e. 'hanged') in the Ka'ba. Another highlight is a synopsis of the 'Romance of Antar,' an oral saga of a brave prince of old Arabia, and many deeds of derring-do. The one downside here is all of the variant ways of transliterating Arabic words, which probably will take an specialist in Arabic literature to sort out." PREFACE. THE history of the present volume is soon told. I was engaged in collecting material for illustration of the migrations and transformations of Popular European Tales and Fictions, and, in the course of my researches, had occasion to consult the works of Sir William Jones, where meeting with his translation of the MU'ALLAQaT, or Seven Ancient Arabic Prize Poems, the idea occurred to me that a reprint of it would be acceptable to a few personal friends, interested in Asiatic literature. The project was readily approved; and it was suggested that these Poems might be interesting to a larger section of English readers. A tentative Prospectus was then issued, proposing to privately reprint Sir W. Jones' translation of the Mu'allaqat and Carlyle's Specimens of Arabian Poetry. This proposal met with support, not only from English scholars and public libraries, but from many distinguished Orientalists; and it was resolved to add to the volume a selection from the Poetry contained in Hamilton's translation of part of the famous Arabian Romance of 'Antar. The connecting of these selections with an outline of the leading incidents of the Romance was an afterthought. Even if Hamilton's volumes were readily accessible, which they are not, few mere English readers would care to go through his diffuse translation, which is rendered more unreadable by the magnificent poetry being printed without a break, often for two or more pages together. But the Epitome included in this volume will perhaps satisfy the curiosity of readers generally regarding a work of which assuredly a complete English translation will never be attempted. The SHORTER ARABIAN POEMS, translated by Dr. Carlyle, and entitled, "Specimens of Arabian Poetry"--first published in 1796, and again in 1810--are confessedly paraphrases in English verse rather than translations. The selections, together with the translator's anecdotal notices of some of the authors, furnish, nevertheless, a concise history of Arabian literature during the most flourishing period of the Muslim empire. But this volume must possess an interest and value far beyond what might otherwise possibly attach to it, in containing the famous BURDA POEMS of K'AB and EL-BuSiRi, which are here presented for the first time in English, by Mr. J. W. Redhouse, whose high reputation for scholarship will be a sufficient guarantee to the English reader that the translations are as accurate as it is possible to render such enigmatical compositions into our language.</p>

Arabian Poetry for English Readers

Mu'AllaQat

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