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Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Ernest Percival Rhys (1859-1946) was a British writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays. He was born in London, and brought up in Carmarthen and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After working in the coal industry, he was employed doing editorial work on the Camelot Series of 65 reprints and translations from 1886, for five years, while he turned to writing as a profession. He was a founder member in 1890 of the Rhymer's Club in London, and a contributor to The Book of the Rhymers' Club (1893). In 1906, he persuaded J. M. Dent, the publisher, for whom he was working on The Lyric Poets series, to start out on the ambitious Everyman project, aiming to publish 1000 titles; the idea was to put out ten at a time. The target was eventually reached, ten years after Rhys died. Amongst his other works are: A London Rose (1894), Welsh Ballads (1898), Fairy Gold (1906), Kalevala: The Land of the Heroes (1907) (edited) and The Leaf Burners (1918).

About the Publisher

Dodo Press

Dodo Press has re-published over fifteen thousand out of print or difficult to find titles. By doing this we have made thousands of titles available to readers that were previously impossible to get hold of.

Book information

ISBN: 9781409968122
Publisher: Book Depository Limited
Imprint: Dodo Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 458g
Height: 152mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 18mm