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A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entitled The book of the thousand nights and a night (Volume I)

A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments, now entitled The book of the thousand nights and a night (Volume I)

F. Burton, Richard

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Aging & Elder CareFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354031021
ISBN13: 9789354031021
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 25 2020
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Enter a world where stories keep you alive. Night after night, she speaks. Volume I of Richard F. Burton's famed classic world literature translation opens the doors to the one thousand and one nights, where desire, danger, wit and wonder share the same candlelight. This is a classic folktale anthology at full stretch: an unabridged story collection drawn from medieval Arabic folk tales and Middle Eastern mythology stories, shaped into a grand sequence of nested narratives. Expect magic and jinn tales beside palace intrigue stories, romantic adventure tales, moral fables and sharp-edged humour - storytelling for adults in the richest sense, where the marvellous is never far from politics, appetite or fate. Burton's Victorian rendering is part of the work's long afterlife in English: influential, unmistakably voiced, and central to how generations encountered these tales beyond their original languages. It remains essential world literature course reading and a cornerstone for collectors tracing the global pathways of myth and narrative. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For anyone who loves classic world storytelling - from Brothers Grimm fairy tales to epic cycles of legend - this is the threshold to a library of wonders.

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