Screen LibraryThe Arabian nights : the Husain Haddawy translation based on the text edited by Muhsin Mahdi, contexts, criticism /
Twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights, yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively re...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2010] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Arabic |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Norton critical edition. |
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| Summary: |
Twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights, yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date - the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 523 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-523). |
| ISBN: |
9780393928082 (paperback) : 039392808X (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PJ7715 |
| CLC: | I371.73 |
| Call Number: | I371.73/A658-7 |
| Contents: |
A ninth-century fragment of the Thousand nights / Meadows of gold (Murūj al-Dhahah) / The Fihrist / The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade / From Remembrance of things past / From The dreams of Scheherazade / A thousand and one nights / The origins of The Arabian nights / The translators of The thousand and one nights / The thousand and one nights in European culture / From The art of story-telling / Narrative-men / A comic romance from The thousand and one nights : The tale of two viziers / Neglected conclusions of the Arabian nights : gleanings in forgotten and overlooked recensions / Madness and cure in the 1001 nights / The eye and the needle / Story-telling techniques in The Arabian nights / The Arabian nights : a chronology. |