Arabian Nights

Name: Arabian Nights
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ISBN: 9780393331660

ISBN-10: 0393331660

ISBN-13: 9780393331660

Edition: N/A

Authors: Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Muhsin Mahdi

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton. The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.30" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand.