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- 1 2 Menikoff, Barry (1990), "New Arabian Nights: Stevenson’s experiment in Fiction", Nineteenth-Century Literature 43 (iii 1990), pp. 339-62.
- ↑ Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature. New Directions Publishing, 2013. ISBN 9780811218757. P. 240.
- ↑ López-Calvo, Ignacio (24 January 2012). Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and "the Orient". ISBN 9781443837262.
