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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

Volume 3

By Anonymous
Introduction by Robert Irwin
Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons
Notes by Robert Irwin

By Anonymous
Introduction by Robert Irwin
Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons
Notes by Robert Irwin

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May 25, 2010 | ISBN 9780140449402

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights by Anonymous
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About The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature
 
From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880s.
 
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier’s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel of Death and magical spirits, and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps—a sequence of stories that will last 1,001 nights, and that will save her own life.

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Product Details

Category: Fiction Classics | Fairy Tales | Literary Fiction

Paperback | $21.00
Published by Penguin Classics
May 25, 2010 | 800 Pages | ISBN 9780140449402
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Praise

“A magnificent, unexpurgated edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world . . . The Arabian Nights is not a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have.” —The Sunday Times (London) 

“The translation . . . ought to become the standard one for the present century.” —The Times Literary Supplement 

“These magnificent volumes are the most ambitious and thorough translation into English of The Arabian Nights since the age of Queen Victoria and the British Empire.” —The Guardian 

“This new translation of the world’s greatest collection of folk stories restores their colour and verve.” —The Sunday Times (London)

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