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| one thousand and one nights: Tales from the thousand and one nights N. J. Dawood, 1980 |
| one thousand and one nights: كتاب مائة ليلة وليلة Bruce Fudge, 2016-09-06 A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier’s daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate. Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, A Hundred and One Nights is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than Thousand and One Nights, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder. A bilingual Arabic-English edition. |
| one thousand and one nights: One Thousand and One Arabian Nights Geraldine McCaughrean, 2003 |
| one thousand and one nights: One Thousand and One Arabian Nights , 2020-11-17 • Marketing focus on combination of gift production and high content values, delivering a curated read to genre enthusiasts. • Spotlight on submission process for the new stories, promoted online through blogs and social media • Monthly newsletter to increase mailing list of genre special interest readers. • Major interest pushed through Instagram, with Youtube reviewers and influences. Tales of the enchanting ‘Thousand and One Nights’ have entered the folklore of the entire world but their origins lie in the Arabic and Indian oral traditions of the early middle ages. Their power to entice lies in the tenacity of the storyteller Scheherazade who weaves a new tale each night, to save herself from execution. Popular characters such as Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad the sailor have become part of the Arabian Nights, added in later years, but told within the intriguing structure of the original. Such additions by were made by translators and collaborators from many European and Eastern sources but it was Richard Burton’s edition that brought these popular folk tales to the attention of a Victorian era readership eager to explore new cultures. It is Burton’s edition that forms the basis of this new collection, with stories that survive still from the original featured here too: ‘The Merchant and the Genie’, ‘The Fisherman and the Genie’, ‘The Porter and the Three Ladies’, ‘The Three Apples’. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night John Payne, 2018-10-08 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Arabian Nights , 2009-08-26 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. |
| one thousand and one nights: Stories from One Thousand and One Nights Ghada Bualuan, 2018-09-21 Specially designed for students of Arabic, this textbook presents a selection of authentic Arabian Night stories in simplified language providing learners of Modern Standard Arabic access to this classic of Arabic literature. Each story is fully supported by a range of comprehension, vocabulary-building, grammar reinforcement activities and exercises as well as an audio version of the story, which can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781138948228. Ideal for class-use or self-study, students will enhance their reading, listening, and writing skills while developing the ability to analyze literary texts, reason critically, and broaden their understanding and appreciation of different layers of Arab culture. |
| one thousand and one nights: A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights Hasan M. El-Shamy, 2006-12-21 In 1704 the French Orientalist Antoin Galland introduced to the Western world a translation of The Thousand and One Nights. Over the course of two subsequent centuries, numerous editions followed. Many of these, like Galland's, included texts of stories not found in the indigenous manuscripts of the Nights but selected by the European editors from other literary and oral collections of ordinary folktales and legends. Thus, the original work acquired a Western designation as The Arabian Nights, a title unknown among the masses in Arab lands. Now, three centuries later, original publication of The Thousand and One Nights is being celebrated with widespread, renewed interest in the work. Hasan El-Shamy's motif-index, based on an authentic folk edition of Alf laylah wa laylah, provides scholars of various fields accurate information about the content of this classic piece of Arabic folk tradition. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Arabian Nights (Illustrated) Richard Francis Burton, 2022-11-13 Richard Francis Burton's 'The Arabian Nights' (Illustrated) offers a sublime journey into the heart of Middle Eastern storytelling tradition. Compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, this selection contains the most renowned stories, all intricately interwoven and layered within the frame tale of Shahryār and his cunning wife, Scheherazade. Burton's translation captures the essence of these tales, originally oral narratives, bringing to life characters like Sindbad, Alibaba, and a host of genies and magical creatures. The book's literary style is characterized by its rich, descriptive prose, which is both poetic and evocative, mirroring the original Arabic text. The edition's illustrations further serve to immerse readers in this bygone era of grandeur and fantasy, making it a testament to the enduring legacy of these stories within the canon of world literature. Sir Richard Francis Burton was a man of many talents—a linguist, explorer, and ethnographer, whose life experiences deeply influenced his literary work. His fascination with cultures and his proficiency in more than 40 languages equipped him with the unique insight needed to translate and convey the rich tapestry of 'The Arabian Nights.' Burton's version, known for its unabridged and authentic approach, reflects his commitment to preserving the stories' original vigor and cultural nuance, which might have been inspired by his extensive travels through the regions where these tales first originated. This illustrated edition of 'The Arabian Nights,' as rendered by Burton, is an invitation to the connoisseur of classic literature and aficionados of folklore alike. Through the combination of Burton's scholarly translation and the spellbinding illustrations, the book extends a portal into the mystical realm of the ancient East. Recommended for those who relish cultural exploration through literature, it promises to deliver not only a collection of entertaining narratives but also a deeper appreciation of the intricate art of storytelling that has mesmerized readers for centuries. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science , 2020-04-28 The Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nights has continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nights has continued to widen, making the collection a universal work from every point of view. The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for this monumental work of Arabic literature and follow the trajectory of the Nights’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science. Contributors: Ibrahim Akel, Rasoul Aliakbari, Daniel Behar, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Anne E. Duggan, William Granara, Rafika Hammoudi, Dominique Jullien, Abdelfattah Kilito, Magdalena Kubarek, Michael James Lundell, Ulrich Marzolph, Adam Mestyan, Eyüp Özveren, Marina Paino, Daniela Potenza, Arafat Abdur Razzaque, Ahmed Saidy, Johannes Thomann and Ilaria Vitali. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights Muhsin S. Mahdi, 2023-08-07 Almost three centuries have passed since the oldest manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights arrived in Europe. Since then, the Nights have occupied the minds of scholars world-wide, in particular the questions of origin, composition, language and literary form. In this book, Muhsin Mahdi, whose critical edition of the text brought so much praise, explores the complex literary history of the Nights, bringing to fruition the search for the archetype that constituted the core of the surviving editions, and treating the fascinating story of the growth of the collection of stories that we now know as The Thousand and One Nights. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Book of the Thousand and one Nights. Volume 1 J.C Mardrus, E.P Mathers, 2002-09-11 First Published in 1986. For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten’s Calcutta Edition of the original (1839– 42). |
| one thousand and one nights: A Thousand Nights E.K.Johnston, 2015-10-08 He killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife. When a powerful and dangerous king arrives in the desert to take one of the village girls as his next wife, one girl will stop at nothing to save the life of her sister - even if it means sacrificing herself. At his palace she is sure death awaits. But the king's fascination with her keeps her alive night after night, as the tales she weaves for him create a strange magic between them and her words come to life before her eyes. As her stories become more intricate and beautiful, her magic becomes more powerful, but will it be enough to save her? |
| one thousand and one nights: Arabian Nights and Days Naguib Mahfouz, 2016-06-15 The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights M. S. Mahdi, 1995 Almost three centuries have passed since the oldest manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights arrived in Europe. Since then, the Nights have occupied the minds of scholars world-wide, in particular the questions of origin, composition, language and literary form. In this book, Muhsin Mahdi, whose critical edition of the text brought so much praise, explores the complex literary history of the Nights, bringing to fruition the search for the archetype that constituted the core of the surviving editions, and treating the fascinating story of the growth of the collection of stories that we now know as The Thousand and One Nights, |
| one thousand and one nights: One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection Jonathan Scott, Richard Burton, 2015 The exotic tales of the Arabian Nights have charmed and delighted readers across the world for almost a millennia. The collection features hundreds of magical Middle Eastern and Indian stories, including the famous first appearances of Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad the Sailor.? This eBook presents a comprehensive collection of translations of 'One Thousand and One Nights', with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Beautifully illustrated with images relating to 'One Thousand and One Nights' Concise introductions to the translations 5 different translations, with individual contents tables Features Burton's seminal 16 volume translation Excellent formatting of the texts Some tales are illustrated with their original artwork Features Edward William Lane's guide to ARABIAN SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE AGES ? the perfect accompaniment to reading 'One Thousand and One Nights' Please visit delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Translations ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS JONATHAN SCOTT 1811 TRANSLATION JOHN PAYNE 1884 TRANSLATION RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON 1885 TRANSLATION ANDREW LANG 1885 TRANSLATION JULIA PARDOE 1857 ADAPTATION The Guide ARABIAN SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE AGES by Edward William Lane Please visit delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks. |
| one thousand and one nights: One Thousand and One Nights, Vol. 6 JinSeok Jeon, 2008-12-16 Socrates and Alcibiades must combat intrigue in plague-ravaged Athens when Critias conspires to tear the lovers apart...but the conspiracy doesn't end with Sehara's Tale. As Shahryar prepares to oust invading Crusaders, a betrayal from within diverts his attention from battle and leaves his kingdom - and Sehara - vulnerable to attack! |
| one thousand and one nights: Stories from the Thousand and One Nights , 1909 |
| one thousand and one nights: New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson, 1895 |
| one thousand and one nights: The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 2024-11-08 Beschreibung I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication: To Leon Werth when he was a little boy Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion. |
| one thousand and one nights: A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini, 2008-09-18 A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand Nights and One Night Jan Pieńkowski, 2007 Enter an ancient world of enchantment and adventure where animals talk, genies grant wishes and sorcerers and sultans rub shoulders with men. Based on the original nineteenth century English translation by Sir Richard Burton, David Walser retells these fantastic tales with a flourish of magic. Jan Pienkowski's exquisite silhouettes on stunning colour bring the stories vividly to life, with silver ink printing throughout making this a truly sumptuous production of one of the oldest and best-loved story collections. |
| one thousand and one nights: Stranger Magic Marina Warner, 2012-03-03 Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience. |
| one thousand and one nights: Tales from the 1001 Nights Richard Burton, 2006 Presents a retelling of traditional tales from the Middle East, including Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Aladdin and his magic lamp, and Sinbad the sailor. |
| one thousand and one nights: The Alchemist LP Paulo Coelho, 2005-11-01 Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over two million copies sold in English and twenty-one million copies worldwide, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic that will enchant and inspire readers for generations to come. |
| one thousand and one nights: One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 2014-03-06 ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE _______________________________ 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice' Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. _______________________________ 'As steamy, dense and sensual as the jungle that surrounds the surreal town of Macondo!' Oprah, Featured in Oprah's Book Club 'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times 'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson 'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights , 1883 |
| one thousand and one nights: The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, 2007 Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. |
| one thousand and one nights: Animal Farm George Orwell, 2025 |
| one thousand and one nights: A Thousand Nights and a Night Richard Burton, Richard F Burton, Sir, 2018-01-29 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is an English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) - a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) - by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the Arabian Nights until the Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons translation in 2008.-wikipedia |
| one thousand and one nights: Encyclopedia Iranica Ehsan Yarshater, 1982 |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights Stanley Lane-Poole, 1906 |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights , 1848 |
| one thousand and one nights: The Arabian Nights : Tales from the Thousand and One Nights , 1985 |
| one thousand and one nights: One Thousand and One Nights. Illustrated Jonathan Scott, John Payne, Richard Francis Burton, Andrew Lang, Julia Pardoe, 2022-03-31 This book contents a complete collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars. The thing common to all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. Jonathan Scott 1811 Translation John Payne 1884 Translation Richard Francis Burton 1885 Translation Andrew Lang 1885 Translation Julia Pardoe 1857 Adaptation |
| one thousand and one nights: The Thousand and One Nights , 1865 |
| one thousand and one nights: 1001 Nights Richard Francis Burton, 2022-05-17 The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night is a collection of Middle Eastern, West Asian and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.The stories proceed from an original tale of ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade where some stories are framed within other stories, while others begin and end of their own accord. This edition contains more than 1001 tales of romance, erotica, supernatural and adventure along with copious notes transport you into the land of magic and nostalgia. |
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Nov 18, 2023 · In One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights or Thousand and One Nights), Scheherazade is clever in managing to survive in a society where …
Alf Laylah wa Laylah or The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights is a multiple text, and I see no reason to exclude any standard Arabic edition or any of the translations based on it, no matter how controversial they may be. I …
In One Thousand and One Nights, what is the effect of a female …
Dec 10, 2023 · The effect of a female narrator in One Thousand and One Nights is subtle, as Scheherazade's narratorial voice is distant and objective, similar to the frame narrator's. Her …
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The effect of a female narrator in One Thousand and One Nights is subtle, as Scheherazade's narratorial voice is distant and objective, similar to the frame narrator's. Her gender becomes …
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Nov 27, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights can be seen as sexist, particularly in its depiction of the sultan's violence towards women and the societal acceptance of his actions, reflecting …
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The Thousand and One Nights can be seen as sexist, particularly in its depiction of the sultan's violence towards women and the societal acceptance of his actions, reflecting male …
Characterize Shahrazad from The Thousand and One Nights.
Jul 5, 2024 · The story of A Thousand and One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights, is built upon the structural framework that allows all of the stories within to be joined in single …
Is The Thousand and One Nights a sexist text that reaffirms gender ...
Jul 5, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and Asian stories, whose origins range from the medieval to the ancient. The …
The Arabian Nights Critical Essays - eNotes.com
The story of the translations of the Arabian Nights is a colorful and even lurid one. In this story’s English segment, very close to center stage, gesticulating wildly, is Sir Richard Burton ...
One Thousand and One Nights Summary - eNotes.com
Jun 15, 2013 · Rev. of One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling, by Hanan al-Shaykh. Kirkus Reviews 15 June 2013: 5. Print. Premium PDF. Download the entire One Thousand and One …
Thousand and One Nights - eNotes.com
Nov 18, 2023 · In One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights or Thousand and One Nights), Scheherazade is clever in managing to survive in a society where …
Alf Laylah wa Laylah or The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights is a multiple text, and I see no reason to exclude any standard Arabic edition or any of the translations based on it, no matter how controversial they may be. I …
In One Thousand and One Nights, what is the effect of a female …
Dec 10, 2023 · The effect of a female narrator in One Thousand and One Nights is subtle, as Scheherazade's narratorial voice is distant and objective, similar to the frame narrator's. Her …
The Arabian Nights Questions and Answers - eNotes.com
The effect of a female narrator in One Thousand and One Nights is subtle, as Scheherazade's narratorial voice is distant and objective, similar to the frame narrator's. Her gender becomes …
Is the Thousand and One Nights sexist? - eNotes.com
Nov 27, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights can be seen as sexist, particularly in its depiction of the sultan's violence towards women and the societal acceptance of his actions, reflecting …
Thousand and One Nights Questions and Answers - eNotes.com
The Thousand and One Nights can be seen as sexist, particularly in its depiction of the sultan's violence towards women and the societal acceptance of his actions, reflecting male …
Characterize Shahrazad from The Thousand and One Nights.
Jul 5, 2024 · The story of A Thousand and One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights, is built upon the structural framework that allows all of the stories within to be joined in single …
Is The Thousand and One Nights a sexist text that reaffirms gender ...
Jul 5, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and Asian stories, whose origins range from the medieval to the ancient. The …
The Arabian Nights Critical Essays - eNotes.com
The story of the translations of the Arabian Nights is a colorful and even lurid one. In this story’s English segment, very close to center stage, gesticulating wildly, is Sir Richard Burton ...
