The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy

The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy

Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This modern edition, culled from the first three volumes of Richard F. Burton's famous ten-volume translation, restores the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic. Intricate and imaginative, these stories continue to captivate audiences as they have for centuries. The following stories can be found in this audiobook: Tale of the Bull and the Ass Tale of the Trader and the Jinni The First Shaykh's Story The Second Shaykh's Story The Third Shaykh's Story The Fisherman and the Jinni The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban King Sindibad and his Falcon The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince The Tale of the Three Apples The Hunchback's Tale The Nazarene Broker's Story The Reeve's Tale The Tale of the Jewish Doctor The Tale of the Tailor The Barber's Tale of Himself The Barber's Tale of His First Brother The Barber's Tale of His Second Brother The Barber's Tale of His Third Brother The Barber's Tale of His Fourth Brother The Barber's Tale of His Fifth Brother The Barber's Tale of His Sixth Brother The End of the Tailor's Tale Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis The Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter The Hermits Tale of the Water Fowl and the Tortoise

"A fine new translationBawdy, colloquial and wondrously inventive." -- Michiko Kakutani - New York Times
"Easily the clearest, most fluent and readable translation." -- A. S. Byatt - Sunday Times [London]
"The resourceful Shahrazad has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book." -- Doris Lessing - The Independent
"A distinguished new translation." -- Edward Said - The Nation
"Indispensable. Not a new version of an old favorite, but a work we’ve never known." -- Geoffrey O'Brien - Voice Literary Supplement

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. Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations; The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies in 2008; Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language; and Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency. He has published articles on classical, medieval, and modern literature and philosophy and has edited, translated, and introduced Giorgio Agamben’s Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy. Heller-Roazen’s books have been translated into many languages.

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ISBN 13	9780393928082
ISBN 10	039392808X
Title	The Arabian Nights
Author	Husain Haddawy
Series	Norton Critical Editions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2010-05-03
Number of pages	544
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