The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights (平装)

副标题: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights

ISBN: 9780451525420

出版社: Signet Classics (1991年8月1日)

出版年: 1991年08月

页数: 608 页

定价: 20.0

装帧: 平装

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Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.