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A Hundred and One Nights Edited and Bruce Fudge

A Hundred and One Nights By Edited and  Bruce Fudge

A Hundred and One Nights by Edited and Bruce Fudge


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Features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. This book includes tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and more.

A Hundred and One Nights Summary

A Hundred and One Nights by Edited and Bruce Fudge

Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier's daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.
Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, A Hundred and One Nights is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than Thousand and One Nights, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

A Hundred and One Nights Reviews

[T]his is an enjoyable collection, with a good variety of stories (and presentation). * Complete Review *
Bruce Fudges erudite translation . . . is a major contribution to the field and promises to intrigue and beguile the general reader as well as to become indispensable to literary scholars. * Times Literary Supplement *
Reading Fudge's translation of A Hundred and One Nights is a joy. * Public Books *
[A]ccessibility is central to Fudge's translation of A Hundred and One Nights into English as well as his new edition of the original Arabic text. * The National *
This volume offers many pleasures and presents many wonderful stories that would otherwise have been lost to most readers. -- Journal of the American Oriental Society

About Edited and Bruce Fudge

Bruce Fudge is Professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Quranic Hermeneutics: al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary (2011) as well as a number of articles on the interpretation of the Quran and medieval and modern Arabic literature. Robert Irwin is the author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion as well as numerous other studies of Middle Eastern politics, art, and mysticism.

Additional information

GOR011593946
9781479873234
1479873233
A Hundred and One Nights by Edited and Bruce Fudge
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New York University Press
20170905
272
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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