false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178234761m/774368.jpg 93101 114 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. 859375 book 1909 The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library MM) total:2763|5:972|4:988|3:651|2:125|1:27| 2763 11042 4706 228 5 5 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 10 00:28:28 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 21 05:06:52 -0700 2008 The Arabian Nights is sort of a collection of short stories told in Arabia (which seems to include India and parts of China) waaaaaay back in the day. The framework of the story is about a sultan who caught his wife cheating on him. After he has her killed, he de...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 14:29:41 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 19:04:16 -0700 2007
One of my favorite aspects of this work is the role of Shahrazad. While many people discuss that she is telling the stories to save her own life, what people fail to recognize many times is that...more...]]> 3 5 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:36:03 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:51:29 -0700 2009 The Arabian Nights.

Reasons I May Finish This Ridiculously Long Book:
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About a quarter of the way i...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Apr 13 01:39:18 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 04:15:20 -0700 2009 "A character in a story invokes a character who tells a story about a character who has a story to tell... Everything proliferates. The Nights is a maze, a web, a network, a river with infinite tributaries, a series of boxes within boxes, a bottomless pool. It turns endlessly on itself, a story...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 12:53:48 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 12:53:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 24 19:00:13 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 19:13:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 15 21:06:21 -0800 2008 Sat May 03 10:54:48 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Jul 31 05:50:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 05:51:20 -0700 2009
Kind of boring, but I'm glad I read it, if only for insight into a literary culture. I noticed that the first stories were somewhat short and full of magical elements and stereotypes, but graduall...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 08:42:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:39:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 29 19:19:13 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 19:25:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:27:46 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:40:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 15 13:26:23 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:04:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 03 12:34:04 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 03 05:39:23 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 28 02:11:49 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 17:31:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 12 20:57:46 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 23:48:17 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 16:01:45 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 21:08:59 -0700 2008
As you probably know, the 1001 tales are told by Shahrazad (my edition's spelling), who pins little cliffhangers at the end of each tale, in an effort to keep...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 23 12:11:26 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 19 12:56:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Feb 16 10:09:42 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:15:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 26 16:45:11 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 24 14:04:29 -0700 2008
Anyway, I finally finished this up. What an odd read. Half the stories at the beginning had a repetitive plot element o...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=774368