A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Categories: Fiction The Arabian Nights Tales of 1 001 NightsĪ magnificent and richly illustrated volume-with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images-of the most famous story collection of all time.Ī magnificent and richly illustrated volume?with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images-of the most famous story collection of all time. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel of Death and magical spirits, and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps-a sequence of stories that will last 1,001 nights, and that will save her own life. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880s. The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Categories: Fiction The Arabian Nights Tales of 1 001 Nights Eventually, after a thousand and one nights, King Shahryar is cured of his euphoria, and Shahrazad in turn bears him three children. Eager to know the outcome of the story’s ending, King Shahryar condones the killing everyday. Thus, she begins telling him one every night, keeping the climax in abeyance. Shahrazad, a beautiful but shrewd girl, learns of the king’s fondness for enchanting stories. The Wazir, having no choice, gives his daughter to king Shahryar. A stage comes when there is no eligible woman left for him (with many having fled his kingdom) except the daughter of his Wazir, Shahrazad. Hence, each night after having betrothed a beautiful girl, kills her the next morning. After which he resolves to take revenge on all womankind. These tales comprise of fantasy and a whimsical plot arrangement the story goes thus: Shahryar, king of India, inflamed with jealousy by his wife’s infidelity and wanton ways, executes her.
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