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The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. Translated by Issa J. Boullata. 186 pages. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1995. $22.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1–55728-349–4

the premodern urban environment in which the Nights' stories generally situate their action. Irwin next concentrates on the themes of "low life," sex, and magic and the fantastic, although he admits that these are only several of many possible choices. Thereafter, he examines prominent models of literary criticism applicable to Nights stories: Propp's work on fairy tales, for example, or Todorov's study of the fantastic. His final chapter investigates the various ways that the story collection has influenced the Western literary and cultural imagination. Robert Irwin's study is a welcome addition to Nights scholarship. It provides a convenient introduction to the literary issues involved, and its lively and clear style recommend its use in any university course on the Nights. Now if we only had an accurate, clear, and complete contemporary English translation of the story collection itself!