false 3312298 1 Now as sumptuously packaged as it is critically acclaimed&#151;a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories.<BR><BR>Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of <I>The Arabian Nights</I> 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 <I>The Arabian Nights</I> provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.<BR><BR>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. 3349891 12 5 2008 The Arabian Nights total:91|5:31|4:39|3:17|2:3|1:1| 91 369 199 18 4 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 13:28:25 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 08 15:32:49 -0800 2008
Of all of the world’s story collections, surely The Arabian Nights has the best framing device—the best fiction...more...]]> 3 1 true false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 12:07:43 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 12:11:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 07 15:20:43 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 11:03:04 -0700 2009 The Arabian Nights is a dizzying array of stories within stories within stories, playing with the idea that our narrative impulse is the connective tissue that makes civilization possible. The stories are at their best when they fully indulge...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 22:35:36 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 22:45:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 18:59:04 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 19:04:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 19:07:54 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 10:12:30 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 12:12:32 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 12:13:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Feb 20 14:17:16 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 14:18:56 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Mar 20 11:04:46 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 11:05:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 10:25:09 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 10:25:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 30 09:38:30 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 10:08:08 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 08:27:41 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 07:58:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 27 06:44:44 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 09:14:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 03 09:58:52 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 10:01:47 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Nov 07 19:50:33 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 19:51:13 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Aug 17 13:17:58 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 12:22:27 -0700 2008 and feel very regal as Shahrazad spins her tales...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jul 07 18:57:22 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 06:48:28 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 19 20:44:37 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 20:45:08 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 14:32:29 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 14:32:29 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Fri Nov 20 13:06:19 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 13:06:19 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3312298