Synopses & Reviews
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights.
Synopsis
In this companion to his critically acclaimed translation of The Arabian Nights, Husain Haddawy brings together several later stories from the Arabian Nights tradition. Among them are such popular tales as "Sindbad the Sailor", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "Ala al-Din and the Magic Lamp", classics of the storyteller's art that have become an enduring part of our common mythology.