{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights-9780393928082","title":"The Arabian Nights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine new translation. Bawdy, colloquial and wondrously inventive.\" -- Michiko Kakutani - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Easily the clearest, most fluent and readable translation.\" -- A. S. Byatt - Sunday Times [London]\u003cbr\u003e\"The resourceful Shahrazad has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book.\" -- Doris Lessing - The Independent\u003cbr\u003e\"A distinguished new translation.\" -- Edward Said - The Nation\u003cbr\u003e\"Indispensable. Not a new version of an old favorite, but a work we’ve never known.\" -- Geoffrey O'Brien - Voice Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e The Text of The Arabian Nights\u003cbr\u003e 1. Foreword\u003cbr\u003e 2. Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 3. [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]\u003cbr\u003e 4. [The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]\u003cbr\u003e 5. [The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]\u003cbr\u003e 6. [The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]\u003cbr\u003e 7. [The First Old Man's Tale]\u003cbr\u003e 8. [The Second Old Man's Tale]\u003cbr\u003e 9. [The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban]\u003cbr\u003e 10. [The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot]\u003cbr\u003e 11. [The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul]\u003cbr\u003e 12. [The Tale of the Enchanted King]\u003cbr\u003e 13. [The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies]\u003cbr\u003e 14. [The First Dervish's Tale]\u003cbr\u003e 15. [The Second Dervish's Tale]\u003cbr\u003e 16. [The Tale of the Envious and the Envied]\u003cbr\u003e 17. [The Third Dervish's Tale]\u003cbr\u003e 18. [The Tale of the First Lady, the Mistress of the House]\u003cbr\u003e 19. [The Tale of the Second Lady, the Flogged One]\u003cbr\u003e 20. [The Story of the Three Apples]\u003cbr\u003e 21. [The Story of the Two Viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Misri and Bar al-Din Hasan al-Basri]\u003cbr\u003e 22. [The Story of the Hunchback]\u003cbr\u003e 23. [The Christian Broker's Tale: The Young Man with the Severed Hand and the Girl]\u003cbr\u003e 24. [The Steward's Tale: The Young Man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's Maid]\u003cbr\u003e 25. [The Tailor's Tale: The Lame Young Man from Baghdad and the Barber]\u003cbr\u003e 26. [The Tale of the Second Brother, Baqbaqa the Paraplegic]\u003cbr\u003e 27. [The Tale of the Fifth Brother, the Cropped of Ears]\u003cbr\u003e 28. [The Story of Jullanar of the Sea]\u003cbr\u003e 29. [The Story of Sindbad the Sailor]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eContexts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Early Witnesses\u003cbr\u003e     Anonymous • A Ninth-Century Fragment of the Thousand Nights\u003cbr\u003e     Al Mas'ûdi • Meadows of Gold (Murûj al-Dhahab)\u003cbr\u003e     Ibn Ishâq Al-Nadîm • The Fihrist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Modern Echoes\u003cbr\u003e    Edgar Allan Poe • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade\u003cbr\u003e    Marcel Proust • From Remembrance of Things Past\u003cbr\u003e    Taha Husayn • From The Dreams of Scheherazade\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriticism\u003cbr\u003e   Hugo von Hofmannsthal • A Thousand and One Nights\u003cbr\u003e   Josef Horovitz • The Origins of The Arabian Nights\u003cbr\u003e   Jorge Luis Borges • The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights\u003cbr\u003e   Francesco Gabrieli • The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture\u003cbr\u003e   Mia Irene Gerhardt • From The Art of Story-Telling\u003cbr\u003e   Tzvetan Todorov • Narrative Men\u003cbr\u003e   Andras Hamori • A Comic Romance from The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers\u003cbr\u003e   Heinz Grotzfeld • Neglected Conclusions of The Arabian Nights\u003cbr\u003e   Jerome W. Clinton • Madness and Cure in the 1001 Nights\u003cbr\u003e   Abdelfattah Kilito • The Eye and the Needle\u003cbr\u003e   David Pinault • Story-Telling Techniques in The Arabian Nights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arabian Nights: A Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525173911895,"sku":"9780393928082","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393928082.jpg?v=1731859516","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-arabian-nights-9780393928082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}