Author: N. J. DawoodPublisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439515242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," "The Ebony Horse," "The Dream," and other stories
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: N. J. DawoodPublisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439515242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," "The Ebony Horse," "The Dream," and other stories
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: N. J. DawoodPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141952318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.
Tales from 1,001 Nights
Author: Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
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.
Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: Donna Jo NapoliPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426325401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
One Thousand and One Nights
Author: Hanan Al-ShaykhPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408826046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: W. Heath RobinsonPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712801
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous. Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, which are themselves miracles of visual and imaginative sympathy.
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789457004
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A retelling of the adventures of Aladdin who, with the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, fights an evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess.
The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books)
Author: Paulo Lemos HortaPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631493647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully.” —Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker A magnificent and richly illustrated volume—with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images—of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton, Edward Lane, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations break decisively with this masculine dynasty, finally stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings while reclaiming the vitality and delight of the stories, as she works with equal skill in both Arabic and French. Included within are famous tales, from “The Story of Sinbad the Sailor” to “The Story of the Fisherman and the Jinni,” as well as lesser-known stories such as “The Story of Dalila the Crafty,” in which the cunning heroine takes readers into the everyday life of merchants and shopkeepers in a crowded metropolis, and “The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni,” an example of a ransom frame tale in which stories are exchanged to save a life. Grounded in the latest scholarship, The Annotated Arabian Nights also incorporates the Hanna Diyab stories, for centuries seen as French forgeries but now acknowledged, largely as a result of Horta’s pathbreaking research, as being firmly rooted in the Arabic narrative tradition. Horta not only takes us into the astonishing twists and turns of the stories’ evolution. He also offers comprehensive notes on just about everything readers need to know to appreciate the tales in context, and guides us through the origins of ghouls, jinn, and other supernatural elements that have always drawn in and delighted readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with art from Europe and the Arab and Persian world, the latter often ignored in English-language editions, The Annotated Arabian Nights expands the visual dimensions of the stories, revealing how the Nights have always been—and still are—in dialogue with fine artists. With a poignant autobiographical foreword from best-selling novelist Omar El Akkad and an illuminating afterword on the Middle Eastern roots of Hanna Diyab’s tales from noted scholar Robert Irwin, Horta and Seale have created a stunning edition of the Arabian Nights that will enchant and inform both devoted and novice readers alike.
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: Nessim Joseph DawoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9781858137162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description