The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)

Fiction & Literature, Classics
Cover of the book The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition) by , W. W. Norton & Company
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9780393242409
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: May 17, 2008
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780393242409
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: May 17, 2008
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories.

Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.

The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories.

Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.

The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based.

More books from W. W. Norton & Company

Cover of the book Oak: The Frame of Civilization by
Cover of the book The Invisible Classroom: Relationships, Neuroscience & Mindfulness in School (The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education) by
Cover of the book Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by
Cover of the book Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy by
Cover of the book Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by
Cover of the book Sylvanus Now: A Novel by
Cover of the book This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories by
Cover of the book Foreigner: A Novel by
Cover of the book Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by
Cover of the book So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by
Cover of the book The Making of a Therapist by
Cover of the book Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published by
Cover of the book Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor by
Cover of the book Jack and Other New Poems by
Cover of the book Fateful Mornings: A Henry Farrell Novel by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy