Synopses & Reviews
"This is not a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have." -The Sunday Times (London) Every night for three years, the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin and executes her the next morning. To save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches, and wonder-of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of genies trapped in lamps. A sequence of stories to last 1,001 nights. With a new cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Tales from 1,001 Nights is a magnificent collection of some of the world's best-loved tales.
Synopsis
Now in paperback: the best-loved tales from the acclaimed new translation
This is the essential one-volume edition of The Arabian Nights, abridged from the celebrated new three-volume translation. Included are the timeless and unforgettable stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, and many others, in a handy companion to the landmark translation described a "the most ambitious and thorough" by The Guardian (London).
About the Author
Malcolm C. Lyons is a professor of Arabic at Cambridge and a widely published scholar of classical Arabic literature.
Ursula Lyons is an emerita fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a specialist in modern Arabic literature.
Robert Irwin is the author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion, as well as numerous other studies of Middle Eastern politics, art, and mysticism.
Table of Contents
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights Introduction
Invocation
Prologue
The Tale of King Shahriyar and his Brother Shahzaman
The Fable of the Donkey, the Ox, and the Farmer
The Tale of the Hunchback
The Tailor's Tale
The Tale of the Lame Young Man and the Barber of Baghdad
The Barber's Tale
The Tale of Bakbook, the Barber's First Brother
The Tale of Al-Haddar, the Barber's Second Brother
The Tale of Bakbak, the Barber's Third Brother
The Tale of Al-Kuz, the Barber's Fourth Brother
The Tale of Shakashik, the Barber's Sixth Brother
The Donkey
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
The Tale of King Yunan and Duban the Doctor
The Tale of King Sindbad and the Falcon
The Tale of the Enchanted King
The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers
Sindbad the Sailor and Sindbad the Porter
The First Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Last Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The Historic Fart
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
The Tale of Kafur the Black Eunuch
The Porter and the Three Girls of Baghdad
The Tale of the First Dervish
The Tale of the Second Dervish
The Tale of the Third Dervish
The Tale of the First Girl
The Tale of the Second Girl
The Tale of Khalifah the Fisherman
The Dream
The Tale of Judar and His Brothers
The Tale of Ma'Aruf the Cobbler
Epilogue