Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Author(s): Sir Richard Francis Burton
"The Arabian Nights is more generally loved than Shakespeare," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. And the best-known versions of these ancient middle eastern tales are those by the great Victorian English explorer and writer, Richard F. Burton. Also known as A Thousand and One Nights, the stories were told by Scheherazade to entertain her husband, the King, who customarily executed his wives after a single right. Scheherazade cleverly began a story each night but withheld the ending until the following evening, thereby managing to stave off disaster. This original selection includes six of the most famous tales: Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, Aladdin; or the Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, as well as The Fisherman and the Jinni, Judar and His Brethren, and Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Dover Publications Inc.
- : Dover Publications Inc.
- : 0.159
- : 24 January 2002
- : 210mm X 133mm X 13mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sir Richard Francis Burton
- : Paperback
- : 398.20953
- : 224