Stories From The Thousand And One Nights: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Few works in the history of world literature have captivated the human imagination as profoundly as Stories from the Thousand and One Nights, the legendary collection of Middle Eastern folk tales that gave the world Scheherazade, Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba. Set against the opulent and dangerous courts of ancient Arabia and Persia, the frame narrative chronicles a cunning queen who staves off execution by weaving an endless tapestry of stories — each tale a world unto itself, brimming with magic, adventure, romance, and moral consequence. This Harvard Classics edition presents Edward William Lane's authoritative 19th-century English translation, meticulously revised by Stanley Lane-Poole and curated by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, ensuring both scholarly fidelity and narrative richness. Beyond their surface enchantment, these tales carry the full weight of centuries of oral tradition, drawing from Persian, Arabic, Indian, and Egyptian sources to illustrate the universal themes of fate, desire, justice, and the transformative power of storytelling itself. Lane's translation, long regarded as a landmark of Victorian scholarship, renders the exotic prose of the original Arabic with remarkable depth and cultural sensitivity, while Eliot's editorial hand situates the work within the broader canon of great world literature. Whether you are drawn by the thrill of adventure or the wisdom embedded in allegory, this collection promises a journey from which no reader returns unchanged.
Author: Edward William Lane (Translator); Revised By Stanley Lane-Poole; Edited By Charles W. Eliot
Format: Hardback
Genre: Myths & legends
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Few works in the history of world literature have captivated the human imagination as profoundly as Stories from the Thousand and One Nights, the legendary collection of Middle Eastern folk tales that gave the world Scheherazade, Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba. Set against the opulent and dangerous courts of ancient Arabia and Persia, the frame narrative chronicles a cunning queen who staves off execution by weaving an endless tapestry of stories — each tale a world unto itself, brimming with magic, adventure, romance, and moral consequence. This Harvard Classics edition presents Edward William Lane's authoritative 19th-century English translation, meticulously revised by Stanley Lane-Poole and curated by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, ensuring both scholarly fidelity and narrative richness. Beyond their surface enchantment, these tales carry the full weight of centuries of oral tradition, drawing from Persian, Arabic, Indian, and Egyptian sources to illustrate the universal themes of fate, desire, justice, and the transformative power of storytelling itself. Lane's translation, long regarded as a landmark of Victorian scholarship, renders the exotic prose of the original Arabic with remarkable depth and cultural sensitivity, while Eliot's editorial hand situates the work within the broader canon of great world literature. Whether you are drawn by the thrill of adventure or the wisdom embedded in allegory, this collection promises a journey from which no reader returns unchanged.