The Arabian Nights
Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Shahrazad keeps herself alive one story at a time, in Richard Burton's translation of the famous collection of Middle Eastern tales.
These are the tales Shahrazad tells her husband, a king who has executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. She begins a new story every evening and holds back the ending, and after a thousand and one nights her life is spared. This Modern Library volume collects famous stories from Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation, among them Alaeddin and the wonderful lamp, the voyages of Sinbad and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, with Burton’s own explanatory notes.
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Isabel Allende
A thousand and one nights, hundreds of stories, magic, eroticism, adventure, and mischievous characters: What an orgy of the senses and imagination! I keep all this in mind when I write.
Article · January 2014
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