Presents a collection of tales, including "Aladdin," "The Wonderful Lamp," "Sinbad the Seaman," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."
This book has a collection of 35 tales from the 'Nights.'
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
The book of The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali...
The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
. . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . .
Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, vivacious erotica, and animal fables, to pointed Sufi tales, these stories provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at ...
Muhsin Jassim Ali, Heinz Grotzfeld, Nabia Abbott, Gustave E. von Grunebaum, Muhsin Mahdi, Solomon D. Goitein, Peter Heath, ... from Tzvetan Todorov , “ Narrative - Men , ” in The Poetics of Prose ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1977 ) , 66–79 .
Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880s.
Aladdin; or, the Wonderful Lamp. Retold in rhyme by Arthur Ransome. London, n.d. Aladdin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor; or, the Old Man of the Sea, Ali Baba; or, the Forty Thieves, ed. Mary Elizabeth Braddon.