The book of a thousand nights and a night internet archive. Mathers and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. They are related by the beautiful, wise, young shahrazad, who gives herself up to murderous king. The collection features hundreds of magical middle eastern and indian stories, including the famous first appearances of aladdin, ali baba and sindbad the sailor. Gathered and passed down over the centuries from india, persia, and across the arab world, the mesmerizing stories of one thousand and one ni ghts tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. One thousand and one nights complete arabian nights.
List of works influenced by one thousand and one nights. Mardrus by powys mathers volume ii london and new york. The book of one thousand and one ni ghts is an old cycle or group of stories that mostly come from arabia and persia, and a few also from india, central asia and china. The arabian nights or the book of a thousand and one nights. This volume reproduces the 1932 modern library edition, for which bennett a. One thousand and one ni ghts by gwee li sui, 9789814189538, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Lanes new translation of the thousand and one nights is the introduction, by the way of notes, of many short tales or anecdotes, which form an integral portion of the vast collection of stories, the principal of which are known in england as the arabian nights entertainments, but.
Read by calmdragon, gesine, hefyd, kalynda, priya, india, melissa, ransom, anna simon r. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from sir richard f. Some scenes from these stories have always been with me. The mod lib arabian nights modern library classics. See the complete one thousand and one ni ghts series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Buy one thousand and one arabian nights oxford story collections new ed by mccaughrean, geraldine, fowler, rosamund isbn. As the object of the present translation was in the first place, and. A polish noble of the late 18th century, he traveled the orient looking for an original edition of the nights, but never found it. One thousand and one ni ghts influenced the manuscript found in saragossa, by jan potocki.
The book of the thousand nights and one night, volume i by. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, shahrazad always withheld the ending. Cerf from the famous literal translation of richard f. There are many stories written in verse and characterized like art. Uppermost is the story of queen scheherazade who needs to entertain her husband, the sultan or king sheheryar, or she would be put to. The book of one thousand and one nights simple english. Although some suggest the possibility that the stories have their. One thousand and one arabian nights oxford story collections paperback january 6, 2000. Burton and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The thousand and one nights by lane, edward william. Librivox recording of the book of a thousand nights and a night volume 01 translated by richard francis burton. For my ninth birthday in 1952 my aunty gave me a very large thick book, a thousand and one nights, childrens edition. One of the peculiar and most interesting features of mr. Like other medieval texts that are collections of tales, the work we know as arabian nights circulates in a lot of different manuscript forms.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading one thousand and one nights. Upon returning to europe, he wrote his masterpiece, a. The book of the thousand nights and one night, volume ii book. The stories are examples of great storytelling, sometimes outrageously incredible, other. The book of the thousand and one nights 17 volumes leather bound january 1, 1994 by richard f. This is the powys mathers translation from the french by dr. Book thousand nights night, first edition abebooks.
One thousand and one nights by hanan alshaykh is a mischievous, smutty yet brutal to the bone retelling of the arabian nights. 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. There are many dialogues and monologs, turkish loanwords and archaism. One thousand and one nights por olga dugina, 9780863156007, disponible en book depository con envio gratis. One thousand and one ni ghts by ruth browne night was falling as the roar of the kawasakis powerful engine drifted up from the ravine below. The book of the thousand nights and one night, volume i by john payne free ebook project gutenberg. One thousand and one ni ghts reimagines 19 tales from the classic story about young queen shahrazads efforts to save herself from a brutal husband. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
This is the earliest known surviving fragment of the nights. One thousand and one nights book series thriftbooks. The book of the thousand and one nights 17 volumes. Mardrus by powys mathers volume iv london and new york.
This book tells of a world of magical beauty, of the east and its enchantments, and of an art of living which was the product of one of the worlds great civilizations. The earliest reference to it is a collection of tales. The book of the thousand nights and one night wikisource. I have a much older leather bound complete one thousand and one ni ghts, but the translation is archaic, and it is difficult to get through. One thousand and one nights by hanan alshaykh, 9781408827765, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The exotic tales of the arabian nights have charmed and delighted readers across the world for almost a millennia. A retelling kindle edition by gaitskill, mary, alshaykh, hanan.
The book of the thousand nights and one night rendered into english from the literal and complete french translation of dr j. The book of the thousand nights and one night, volume ii. The approach to the compound was steep, snaking along a narrow tarred road with crumbling brick margins. One thousand and one ni ghts is an arab book of stories that contains legends, stories, anecdotes and others. A thousand and one ni ghts by ken mcnaughton sir william hay macnaghtensecond son of sir francis workman macnaghten, chief of the clan macnachtan from 1832 to 1843was instrumental in making available to the west the collection of middle eastern stories known as a thousand and one ni ghts. 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. 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 macnaghtens calcutta edition of the original 1839 42. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The best thing about this retelling was the accessible translation.
King shahrayars wifes betrayal evokes a horrendous bloodshed. A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. In the mid20th century, the scholar nabia abbott found a document with a few lines of an arabic work with the title the book of the tale of a thousand nights, dating from the 9th century. New illustrations and decorations by steele savage by richard f. The book of the thousand nights and a night wikipedia.