The Land Where Time Stood Still and Other Stories Limited Edition Hardcover

The Land Where Time Stood Still and Other Stories Limited Edition Hardcover

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How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale of Aladdin and his wondrous lamp really taken from Wales (where it has been found) to the ancient East and, if so, when and by whom?

These questions and more are answered in Idries Shah’s remarkable volume World Tales, which is subtitled, ‘The extraordinary coincidence of stories told in all times, in all places’. In his introduction, Shah remarks, ‘Working for thirty-five years among the written and oral sources of our world heritage in tales, one feels a truly living element in them which is startlingly evident when one isolates the ‘basic’ stories; the ones which tend to have travelled farthest, to have featured in the largest number of classical collections, to have inspired great writers of the past and present’.

This special edition hardcover is limited to just 500 copies and is the second of five volumes.

Volume 5: The Land Where Time Stood Still and Other Stories

  • The Lost Camel
  • The Beggar and the Gazelle
  • The Apple on the Boy’s Head
  • The Boots of Hunain
  • The Three Caskets
  • The Land Where Time Stood Still
  • The Man Turned into a Mule
  • The Fox and the Hedgehog
  • The Bird Maiden
  • The Slowest May Win the Race
  • The Three Imposters
  • Occasion