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The Arabian Nights
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February 1, 2015
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February 28, 2015
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Group Read Archive 2014-16
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What Members Thought

Britta
Apr 19, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
It's all here -- Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba, flying carpets, "open sesame" -- but so much weirder and more exciting than expected. Infinitely enjoyable, unexpected, and sometimes quite funny, this is a classic that's a rapid, fun read with beautiful, sumptuous illustrations. A joyous read. ...more
Bouchra Rebiai
It took me over a year to finish this book. The version I got was from an iPhone app for classics/not-copyrighted-anymore books, and the language was something that's between Shakespearean and modern English. As a native speaker of both Arabic and English, I had to retranslate some portions (in my head) to get what exactly was going on, as the translation was so crude in some places.

I plodded through the book slowly, especially because I was interested in reading the first versions of two favori
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Jana
Aug 29, 2019 rated it liked it
I read the first many stories for my World Literature course through EdX.
Carol
1. the Story of the Merchant and the Genius.
Ginny
Lots of great stories
Nikki
Feb 26, 2011 marked it as dnf
Hecka
Jun 05, 2011 marked it as to-read
Summer
Jun 21, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: audio, fiction, library
Noname
Jul 17, 2011 marked it as to-read
Lauren
Oct 16, 2011 marked it as classics
Shelves: 2014-to-read
Zoe
Dec 18, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: wishlist
Elizabeth Stultz
Apr 27, 2013 rated it it was amazing
April
Jun 23, 2013 rated it really liked it
Abby
Aug 21, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: world-lit
Chinook
Oct 07, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1001
Bibliofeline
Dec 08, 2013 rated it really liked it
Navi
Oct 03, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 500-pages-plus
Stephanie
Jan 21, 2015 marked it as to-read
Tracey
Jan 21, 2015 marked it as to-read
Lathika
Aug 23, 2015 marked it as to-read
Susan
Apr 27, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ai Jou
Dec 15, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Charlotte
Nov 09, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: buy
Kathy Jo
Dec 04, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Apr 16, 2020 marked it as to-read
Kim DeCina
Sep 04, 2020 marked it as to-read
Wendy
Sep 20, 2020 marked it as to-read
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