The Arabian Nights

The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton From the epic adventures of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp to the farcical Young Woman and her Five Lovers and the social criticism of The Tale of the Hunchback , the stories depict a fabulous world of all powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam. Free Read eBook The Arabian Nights author Anonymous – kino-fada.fr When I was a little girl my grandmother gave me a big, blue, cloth bound edition of this book It had the most exquisite coloured plates protected by tissue paper interleaved with the printed sheets It was the perfect storybook for a bookish, fanciful child living in an abusive home I spent a year reading this book Every night I would read it and disappear from all the fear and unpleasantness around me into this realm of people in exotic clothes who could do magic I cherished the book I When I was a little girl my grandmother gave me a big, blue, cloth bound edition of this book It had the most exquisite coloured plates protected by tissue paper interleaved with the printed sheets It was the perfect storybook for a bookish, fanciful child living in an abusive home I spent a year reading this book Every night I would read it and disappear from all the fear and unpleasantness around me into this realm of people in exotic clothes who could do magi...Ah, if only I could write like the late Sir Richard Burton Normally I dislike translations, but to refuse to read The Arabian Nights on those grounds would be like refusing to read the Bible I love parodying people s styles, and I have tried my utmost to parody Burton convincingly, but I can t do it He s too clever He has taken this unique book, a miraculous survival from the most ancient antiquity, and he has created a unique language to make it accessible to us the backbone is a kind of Ah, if only I could write like the late Sir Richard Burton Normally I dislike translations, but to refuse to read The Arabian Nights on th...TheI read user reviews of The Arabian Nights, theconvinced I am that people are just posting negative things to be contrary How can you not love this collection of stories Common complaints 1 It s racist Yes, the work itself, by today s standards, could probably be considered racist This work was originally written many thousands of years ago Keep that in mind and get off your high horse.2 It s misogynistic I disagree That which would be considered misogynistic falls into TheI read user reviews of The Arabian Nights, theconvinced I am that people are just posting negative things to be contrary How can you not love this collection of stories Common complaints 1 It s racist Yes, the work itself, by today s standards, could probably be considered racist This work was originally written many thousands of years ago Keep that in mind and get off your high horse.2 It s misogynistic I disagree That which would be considered misogynistic falls into the category of that described above Attitudes towards women were considerably different back then Get off your high horse Also, the entire book revolves around a woman who outsmarts her captor Depicting...996 The Thousand and One Nights, AnonymousThe work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Greek, Indian, Jewish, Persian and Turkish folklore and literature In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Pe...For those 2 people who don t know, The Arabian Nights is sort of a collection of short stories told in the Arabian world, as I m told it should be called, which seems to include India and parts of China waaaaaay back in the day The framework of the story is about a sultan who caught his wife cheating on him After he has her killed, he decides to take out his revenge on the entire sex, so he marries a different wife every day and has her killed the next morning Scheherazade is the Grand For those 2 people who don t know, The Arabian Nights is sort of a collection of short stories told in the Arabian world, as I m told it should be called, whi...996 The Thousand And One Nights, AnonymousThe tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature.The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Gre...Arabian Nights is one of the great literary works of all time but precautions need to be made if you want to read it to your kids First off, there is a LOT of violence in the stories and a TON of sex Don t be an idiot like me and start reading an unabridged copy to your kids or you will have to be explaining very early on why so and so killed his wife and imprisoned anotherThat being said, there are few works with as much imagination and wonder in them and taken in lighter doses, it is a Arabian Nights is one of the great literary works of all time but precautions need to be made if you want to read it to your kids First off, there is a LOT of violence in the stories and a TON of sex Don t be an idiot like me and start reading an unabridged copy to your kids or you will have to be explaining very early on why so and so killed his wife and imprisoned anotherThat being said, there are few works with as much imagination and wonder in them and taken in lighter doses, it is a beautiful way of expanding your children s imaginations.For adults, one has to take a lot of this in its historical context and try hard to put aside the misogyny which is rampant in the text Perhaps easier said than done But there are so many eternal stories here Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin and the Magic Lam...A review is pointless for this book It s a classic and everyone should read it Those who are complaining about how women are treated in the stories should read itcarefully and should pay attention also when it was first written Reading this edition, two things amazed me how well I remember all the stories, taking into consideration that last time I read them wasthan 20 years ago and second, how accurate the Romanian translation I read is compared to this one As for this edition, A review is pointless for this book It s a classic and everyone should read it Those who are complaining about how women are treated in the stories should read itcarefully and should pay attention also when it was first written Reading this edition, two things amazed me how well I remember all the stories, taking into consideration that last time I read them wasthan 20 years ago and second, how accurate the Romanian translation I read is compared to this one As for this edition, it is simply superb Starting with the translation, the beautiful artworks inside its pages, the cover, the paper It is a feast for eyes, senses and soul.Loved it I read 1001 Nights several times in my childhood and adolescence and loved them to pieces I still have it in Romanian translation, 4 volumes, editi...As a child I had a small selection of tales from the Arabian nights in a hardback volume with a few gorgeous full colour plates From this a couple of stories stayed with me, a Sultan travelling in disguise meets a man who having learnt of the Sultan s weakness for baby cucumbers was intent on trying to fool him out of a fortune in exchange for them, the man although greedy is also garrulous, tells the Sultan in disguise his wicked plans enabling the Sultan to turn the tables on him and trick As a child I had a small selection of tales from the Arabian nights in a hardback volume with a few gorgeous full colour plates From this a couple of stories stayed with me, a Sultan travelling in disguise meets a man who having learnt of the Sultan s weakness for baby cucumbers was intent on trying to fool him... A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. Within the span of the ninth to the thirteen centuries my library consists of these Beowulf, The Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, The Sagas of Icelanders, Njal s Saga, and this What a show of power, then, that a monumental collection the likes of which the Anglo world has never even attempted to replicate is popularly framed as a collection of children s tales, sexy times, A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. Within the span of the ninth to the thirteen centuries my library consists of these Beowulf, The Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, The Sagas of Icelanders, Njal s Saga, and this What a show of power, then, that a monumental collection the likes of which the Anglo world has never even attempted to replicate is popularly framed as a collection of children s tales, sexy times, and a text that is of little worth without the supposed genius of one bastardizing Orientalist I m not going to pretend that I enjoyed all of this, or most, or eventhan a mere handful of tales in their entirety and bits and pieces of the rest of the thousand and one nights, but I do recognize its worth It s rather sad that most prefer to coddle this or simplify it to extremes, for these times are in...

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• 08 November 2019
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• Paperback
• 1049 pages
• 0812972147
• Anonymous
• The Arabian Nights