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Based on one of the older and more unified Syrian manuscripts.
It has only two hundred and seventy-one nights, but lacks the somewhat random assemblage of later manuscripts. He talks in the introduction about how they were padding out, first in Middle Eastern manuscript (where Sinbad came from) and then in French ones (where Aladdin came from).
Full of nested stories, elaborate rhetoric, Syrian expressions (though jinn is rendered demon), intrigue particularly amorous, bawdiness, drinking, and ver ...more
It has only two hundred and seventy-one nights, but lacks the somewhat random assemblage of later manuscripts. He talks in the introduction about how they were padding out, first in Middle Eastern manuscript (where Sinbad came from) and then in French ones (where Aladdin came from).
Full of nested stories, elaborate rhetoric, Syrian expressions (though jinn is rendered demon), intrigue particularly amorous, bawdiness, drinking, and ver ...more
Greatest collection of short stories imaginable. I really enjoyed them.
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