Selections From The Arabian Nights: Sir Richard Burton's Famous Translation Of The Thousand Nights And A Night With Modernized Spelling And Punctuation
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few works in world literature have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as The Arabian Nights — and this carefully curated selection from Sir Richard Burton's landmark Victorian translation brings the most celebrated of those timeless tales to a modern audience with updated spelling and punctuation. Drawing from his monumental The Thousand Nights and a Night, Burton's version is renowned for its uncompromising fidelity to the original Arabic and its richly ornate prose, transporting readers into a shimmering world of sultans and sorcerers, merchant adventurers and cunning heroines, where fate pivots on the power of a single story told before dawn. Burton's translation, first published in the 1880s, remains one of the great feats of Victorian scholarship — a work that is simultaneously an act of literary preservation and an exercise in exotic romance. This Programmed Classics edition makes his magisterial rendition accessible without sacrificing its essential grandeur, presenting tales of Sinbad, Ali Baba, and Scheherazade in prose that retains its ancient pulse. For readers who have always sensed that the most profound truths are best delivered through the veil of enchantment, this volume asks a tantalising question: how many nights would it take to exhaust the wonder within these pages?
Author: Richard Burton
Format: Hardback
Genre: Myths & legends
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few works in world literature have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as The Arabian Nights — and this carefully curated selection from Sir Richard Burton's landmark Victorian translation brings the most celebrated of those timeless tales to a modern audience with updated spelling and punctuation. Drawing from his monumental The Thousand Nights and a Night, Burton's version is renowned for its uncompromising fidelity to the original Arabic and its richly ornate prose, transporting readers into a shimmering world of sultans and sorcerers, merchant adventurers and cunning heroines, where fate pivots on the power of a single story told before dawn. Burton's translation, first published in the 1880s, remains one of the great feats of Victorian scholarship — a work that is simultaneously an act of literary preservation and an exercise in exotic romance. This Programmed Classics edition makes his magisterial rendition accessible without sacrificing its essential grandeur, presenting tales of Sinbad, Ali Baba, and Scheherazade in prose that retains its ancient pulse. For readers who have always sensed that the most profound truths are best delivered through the veil of enchantment, this volume asks a tantalising question: how many nights would it take to exhaust the wonder within these pages?