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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night written by Joseph Charles Mardrus and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by Edward William Lane and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by Joseph Campbell and published by Joseph Campbell Foundation. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 3000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the overflowing bounty of the world's greatest collection of folk myths and fairy tales "Shehrzad was a priestess of the psyche secure in her science. The wonderful ease with which she gave not the best of her tales the opening night, yet enough to pique the invalid king’s interest, is one of the subtleties of the collection. Her understanding of the paradoxology of fate was transferred to King Shehriyar’s morbid intellect little by little (never more at a time than a self-righteous tyrant could assimilate), until, in the end, what was there left in the world for him to resist or not to love?" — Joseph Campbell, Foreword, The Thousand and One Nights Translated by John Payne and edited by famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, The Thousand and One Nights appears here in its unexpurgated, bountious glory. From well-known tales like "The Fisherman and the Jinni" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad" to hundreds of less well known stories, Shehrzad's entertainments are sure to ravish, awe, and astonish even the most jaded reader. (Arabian and Persian literature, folktales and mythology. 1.2 million words; 116 illustrations)
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction written by Richard van Leeuwen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by Edward William Lane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Commonly called, in England: The Arabian Nights Entertainments. A new translation from the Arabic, with copious notes.
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how this integration invites readers to make an Islamic milieu. Conservative Islam dismisses The Thousand and One Nights as facile popular literature, and liberal views disregard the rich Islamic context of the text. Approaching the text with a fresh and unbiased eye, al-Musawi reads the tales against Islamic schools of thought and theology and recovers persuasive historical evidence to reveal the cultural and religious struggle over Islam that drives the book's narrative tension and binds its seemingly fragmented stories. Written by a number of authors over a stretch of centuries, The Thousand and One Nights depicts a burgeoning, urban Islamic culture in all its variety and complexity. As al-Musawi demonstrates, the tales document their own places and periods of production, reflecting the Islamic individual's growing exposure to a number of entertainments and temptations and their conflict with the obligations of faith. Aimed at a diverse audience, these stories follow a narrative arc that begins with corruption and ends with redemption, conforming to a paradigm that concurs with the sociological and religious concerns of Islam and the Islamic state. By emphasizing Islam in his analysis of these entertaining and instructional tales, al-Musawi not only illuminates the work's consistent equation between art and life, but he also sheds light on its underlying narrative power. His study offers a brilliant portrait of medieval Islam as well, especially its social, political, and economic institutions and its unique practices of storytelling.
Download or read book The Arabian Nights written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
Download or read book The Book of the Thousand and One Nights written by J.C. Mardrus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Arabian nights' entertainments: or, The thousand and one nights, tr. from the Fr. of m. Galland by G.S. Beaumont written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The thousand and one nights: the Arabian nights entertainments, with an intr. illustrative of the religion, manners, and customs of the Mohammedans, by J. Scott written by Arabian nights and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights' written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories from the Thousand and One Nights written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of forty-one of the stories told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade).
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights, Or, The Arabian Nights Entertainments written by Edward William Lane and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabian Nights' Entertainments written by Robert L. Mack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales with which Sheherazade nightly postpones the murderous intent of the Sultan Schahriar have entered our language and our lives like no other collection before or since. This, the only edition to include the complete text of the earliest English translation of the Nights, also offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes and plot summaries to help readers follow the complex and interwoven stories.
