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| Title | : | The Arabian Nights (The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights #1-3) |
| Author | : | Anonymous |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1049 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2004 by Modern Library (first published 800) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Romance |
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The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam.'Specify Books Conducive To The Arabian Nights (The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights #1-3)
| Original Title: | كِتَاب أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة [kitāb ʾalf layla wa-layla] |
| ISBN: | 0812972147 (ISBN13: 9780812972146) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights #1-3 |
| Characters: | Dunyazad, Shahryar, Shah Zaman, Ali Baba, Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid, Syed Nouman, Cogia Hassan, Aladdin, Sinbad |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 71681 Users | 2222 ReviewsColumn Containing Books The Arabian Nights (The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights #1-3)
Arabian Nights is one of the great literary works of all time but precautions need to be made if you want to read it to your kids. First off, there is a LOT of violence in the stories and a TON of sex. Don't be an idiot like me and start reading an unabridged copy to your kids or you will have to be explaining very early on why so and so killed his wife and imprisoned another...That being said, there are few works with as much imagination and wonder in them and taken in lighter doses, it is aAh, if only I could write like the late Sir Richard Burton! Normally I dislike translations, but to refuse to read The Arabian Nights on those grounds would be like refusing to read the Bible. I love parodying people's styles, and I have tried my utmost to parody Burton convincingly, but I can't do it. He's too clever. He has taken this unique book, a miraculous survival from the most ancient antiquity, and he has created a unique language to make it accessible to us: the backbone is a kind of
For those 2 people who don't know, The Arabian Nights is sort of a collection of short stories told in the Arabian world, as I'm told it should be called, (which seems to include India and parts of China) waaaaaay back in the day. The framework of the story is about a sultan who caught his wife cheating on him. After he has her killed, he decides to take out his revenge on the entire sex, so he marries a different wife every day and has her killed the next morning. Scheherazade is the Grand
This edition is a translation of the first 271 nights from the "1001 Nights" cycle. One of my favorite aspects of this work is the role of Shahrazad. While many people discuss that she is telling the stories to save her own life, what people fail to recognize many times is that, really, she volunteers to be placed in the position in order to save her kingdom. She's a great literary heroine--saving the world through storytelling. It also provides a great lens into a world that today is depicted
A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. Within the span of the ninth to the thirteen centuries my library consists of these: Beowulf, The Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, The Sagas of Icelanders, Njal's Saga, and this. What a show of power, then, that a monumental collection the likes of which the Anglo world has never even attempted to replicate is popularly framed as a collection of children's tales, sexy times,
996. The Thousand And One Nights, AnonymousThe tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature.The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Greek, Indian, Jewish, Persian and Turkish folklore and
When I was a little girl my grandmother gave me a big, blue, cloth bound edition of this book. It had the most exquisite coloured plates protected by tissue paper interleaved with the printed sheets. It was the perfect storybook for a bookish, fanciful child living in an abusive home. I spent a year reading this book. Every night I would read it and disappear from all the fear and unpleasantness around me into this realm of people in exotic clothes who could do magic. I cherished the book. I
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