Penguin Classics: Arabian Nights #02: Tales of 1,001 Nights

Penguin Classics: Arabian Nights #02: Tales of 1,001 Nights
Robert Irwin, Ursula Lyons, Malcolm Lyons
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 896pg
12 Apr 2010 UK
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9780140449396
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
"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)
Malcolm Lyons, sometime Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and a life Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is a specialist in the field of classical Arabic literature.His published works include the biography Saladin, the Politics of the Holy War, The Arabian Epic, Identification and Identity in Classical Arabic Poetry and many articles on Arabic literature. Ursula Lyons, formerly an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University and, since 1976, an Emeritus Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, specialises in modern Arabic literature. Robert Irwin is the author of For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages, The Arabian Nights: A Companion and numerous other specialised studies of Middle Eastern politics, art and mysticism. His novels include The Limits of Vision, The Arabian Nightmare, The Mysteries of Algiers and Satan Wants Me.
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ISBN-13: 9780140449396
Published: 12 Apr 2010
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 896
Dewey: 398.20953

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