The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)
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Editor: Muhsin MahdiTranslator: Husain Haddawy
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Deluxe Edition
Published: 2008-05-17
ISBN: 0393331660
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780393331660
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Book Reviews of The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)
Book Review: imaginitive and rich
Summary: 5 Stars
As a previous reviewer commented, this collection is "imganitive and rich." I could not say it better - so I plagerize. Many of the stories of Sherherazade are familiar to us all - Sinbad, the genie in the bottle ... what I was not expecting, however, was the way in which these stories were woven together. The story begins with a description of the setting: the Sassanid king, after being cuckolded by his wife, decides to marry again - but only for one night, after which she is killed. The vizier's daughter volunteers to become the king's next wife; her father urges her not to, relating a parable - which in turn leads to the daughter's response through another parable. The marriage occurs, and in this manner - one story leading into another and another, the the reader (like the king himself) is helplessly pulled into the stories. A brilliant literary device.
The stories themselves are beautiful and varied - some are fantastic (genies, flying horses, talking donkeys), others poignant. It was difficult to put the book down, and each tale had my rapt attention. How much of this is the result of the translator and how much of this is a function of just good story-telling is hard to determine. That, in addition to being entertaining, the stories provide a glimpse into Arabic (and to a lesser extent, Perisan) culture is an added bonus. Recommened reading.
Summary of The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)
Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed?new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory. The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. .Classics Books
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