EAN: 9781607103097

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS HALBLEDER

Full of mischief  valor  ribaldry  and romance  The Arabian Nights 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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

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