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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)

By Richard Burton

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0375756752, 9780375756757
LCC
PJ7716.A1 B87 2001
Open Library ID
OL17606508M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
690 kB (707045 bytes)
Edition
1st Modern Library
Pages
912\253
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.

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