Description: 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. Malcolm Lyons (co-translator) is a professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and a widely published scholar of classical Arabic literature. Ursula Lyons (co-translator) is an emeritus fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, specializes in modern Arabic literature. Robert Irwin (editor, introducer) is the author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion as well as numerous other studies of Middle Eastern politics, art and mysticism.
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EAN: 9780140449396
UPC: 9780140449396
ISBN: 9780140449396
MPN: N/A
Edition: 2
Book Title: Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights Vol. 2 : Volume 2
Number of Pages: 896 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Author: Ursula Lyons
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
