Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays

<p><strong>Jules Verne</strong> before he became the famous novelist we know today from <em>Around the World in 80 Days</em> learned his profession writing for the stage. Many of those youthful plays have been discovered for the first time and three are translated into English for the first time in <em>Scheherazade’s Last Night and Other Plays</em>. In <em>An Excursion at Sea</em> Verne offers a humorous account of a nautical adventure interrupted by pirates.  In <em>La Guimard</em> he relates a love affair between the dancer and the painter Jacques-Louis David creating a realistic historical background as well as a deeply-felt romance. And in <em>The Thousand and Second Night</em> Verne draws upon the world of the Arabian Nights to tell how the Sultan and the story-telling Scheherazade are finally united in marriage.</p><p> </p><p><em>Translator <strong>Peter Schulman </strong>is Professor of French and International Studies at Old Dominion University.</em></p>