Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140442898 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-21 |
| Language | : | Arabic |
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Language Notes Text: English, Arabic (translation)
Priscilla Rodriguez said A lifetime of entertaining stories. What a great book. These stories are extremely old from places such as Persia and India with a mostly arabic influence. The introduction gives great historical insight about the various tales. Of all the translated versions of these classic stories, and what was probably much more complicated original prose, I find Mr Dawood's translations simple and fun to read. The stories are rich with adventure an. Raymond Ayala said Five Stars. Amazing product love the fast delivery and the product is great . Five Stars My 13 year old son is thoroughly enjoying these stories.
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are also anchored to everyday life by their bawdiness and realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Eastern world. In his introduction, he discusses their origins in the East and their differences from Classical Arabic literature, and examines English translations of the tales since the eighteenth century.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Dawood in Penguin Classics. In this selection, Dawood presents the reader with an unexpurgated translation of the finest and best-known tales, preserving their spirited narrative style in lively modern English. Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and One Nights - sometimes known as the Arabian Nights - is translated with an introduction by N.J. The tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to
N.J. Dawood has translated a number of texts for Penguin Classics, including The Koran.