An edition of Arabian Nights (1932)

The Arabian nights' entertainments

or, The book of a thousand nights and a night

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Cover of: The Arabian nights' entertainments by a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations by Richard F. Burton; the stories have been chosen and arranged by Bennett A. Cerf and are printed complete and unabridged with many of Burton's notes; introductory essay by Ben Ray Redman.
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An edition of Arabian Nights (1932)

The Arabian nights' entertainments

or, The book of a thousand nights and a night

by

  • ★★★★ 4.22 ·
  • 9 Ratings
  • 15 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 13 Have read

A selection. Of 29 tales.

Publish Date
Publisher
The Modern library
Language
English
Pages
823

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Subjects
Canon (Literature), Short stories, Arabs, folklore, Arabs, Fairy tales, Tales, Folklore, Tales, arab countries, Classic Literature, Fiction

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The Arabian Nights
2009, Random House Publishing Group
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
June 1, 2004, Modern Library
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
April 10, 2001, Modern Library
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Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
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The Arabian nights: tales from a Thousand and one nights
2001, Modern Library
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The Arabian Nights
February 25, 1997, Modern Library
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The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The book of a thousand nights and a night: a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations
1996, Modern Library
in English - Modern Library ed.
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The Arabian nights' entertainments: or, The book of a thousand nights and a night
1932, The Modern library
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Edition Notes

"First Modern library edition, 1932."

Published in
New York
Series
The Modern library of the world's best books
Translated From
Arabic

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
892.73, 398.21
Library of Congress
PJ7715 .B8 1932b

Contributors

Selected by
Bennett A Cerf
Translator
Richard Francis Burton

The Physical Object

Pagination
2 p. l., iii-xiv, 823 p.
Number of pages
823

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6280873M
Internet Archive
arabiannights0000unse_z4g9
LCCN
32028027
OCLC/WorldCat
322981
Library Thing
3798211

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Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. 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. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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