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Authors: Tawfiq al-Hakim, William M. Hutchins (Editor), William M. Hutchins
ISBN-13: 9780894106484, ISBN-10: 0894106481
Format: Library Binding
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Tawfiq al-Hakim

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Table of Contents

Introduction1
The Artistes11
The Radium of Happiness21
In the Tavern of Life27
Visiting the Angry Princess31
By the Marble Basin35
A Devilish Scheme41
The Tree of Earthly Rule47
My Donkey and Hypocrisy65
Wedding Night69
Expelled from Paradise81
The World's a Stage95
Satan Triumphs105
Destiny109
The Life of a Literary Character123
Show Me God127
The Letter Carrier131
I'm Death135
Confederation of Sparrows145
In the Year One Million149
Azrael the Barber159
A Woman who Beat the Devil163
The Unknown Lover167
The Killer Confessed175
The Birth of a Thought183
Boats of the Sun187
The Saints of Tarsus (for Children)201
The Case of the Twenty-First Century217
About the Book232

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