The Arabian Nights = Alf laylah wa-laylah / translated by Husain Haddawy ; based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publication details: New York : W W Norton & Co Inc 2008, c1990.Description: xxxvi, 518 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:- 0393331660 (pbk.)
- 9780393331660
- Alf laylah wa-laylah
- Arabian nights. English.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 398.22 A658 | Available | 33111007058452 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed-- new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories.
Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own Sindbad , a collection of four later stories associated with the Arabian Nights tradition, including "Sindbad the Sailor" and "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp."
First published as a Norton paperback: New York : W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995.
Prologue: the story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter -- The story of the merchant and the demon -- The story of the fisherman and the demon -- The story of the porter and the three ladies -- The story of the three apples -- The story of the hunchback -- The story of the Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Bakkar and the slave-girl Shams al-Nahar -- The story of the slave-girl Anis al Jalis and Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Khaqan -- The story of Jullanar of the sea.
Translated from the Arabic.