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• Title:The secret of laughter : magical tales from classical Persia / [compiled by] Shusha Guppy.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Guppy, Shusha.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2005.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GR290 .S43 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Fairy tales--Iran.
  Folk literature, Persian.
  
• Description:xviii, 209 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:1850434271 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Padishah and his three daughters
  thief and the cunning bride
  talking skull
  magic saucepan and the piece of lamb's tail
  Haroon al-Rashid's favourite concubine
  secret of laughter
  king and the Prophet Khizr
  cruel mother-in-law
  lazy wife
  man whose luck had gone to sleep
  I know that already
  good vizir and his pride
  laughing scarecrow
  good young man and the heavenly woman
  thorn-seller and the bird of paradise
  Soltan Mahmoud and the band of robbers
  fortune-teller's fortune
  story of Bijan and Manijeh.