Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays by Peter Schulman

Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays by Peter Schulman

Jules Verne, before he became the famous novelist we know today from Around the World in 80 Days, 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 Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays. In An Excursion at Sea, Verne offers a humorous account of a nautical adventure interrupted by pirates. In La Guimard, 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 The Thousand and Second Night, Verne draws upon the world of the Arabian Nights to tell how the Sultan and the story-telling Scheherazade are finally united in marriage.

Translator Peter Schulman is Professor of French and International Studies at Old Dominion University.

Professor of French and International Studies at Old Dominion University, Dr. Peter Schulman He is a Cavalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques and the co-author of Le Dernier Livre du Siecle (Romillat, 2001) with Mischa Zabotin, as well as The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric (Purdue University Press, 2003). He recently translated Jules Verne's last novel The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (University of Nebraska Press) and published a critical version of The Begum's Millions (Wesleyan University Press, 2005). 2012), as well as Marie Darrieussecq's On Waves (VVV editions, 2014), poet Jacques Reda's Suburban Beauty (VVV editions, 2009), and Celine Zins' Adamah (Gival Press, 2010). He is currently coeditor in chief of Green Humanities, a new magazine of ecocriticism, with Josh Weinstein (Virginia Wesleyan College), and has co-edited three books: The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, and Consumer Culture (Die Blaue Eule, 2003); Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Diversity (Kol Katan Press, 2007); and River Crossings: France and German in Love and War (Kol Katan