One Thousand and One Nights (Complete Annotated Edition) (eBook)

World's Literature Classics Series

Richard Francis Burton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
5437 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406605726-8 (EAN)

Infos

"In tide of yore and in time long gone before, there was a King of the Kings of the Banu Sásán in the Islands of India and China, a Lord of armies and guards and servants and dependents . . . So he succeeded to the empire; when he ruled the land and forded it over his lieges with justice so exemplary that he was beloved by all the peoples of his capital and of his kingdom."
The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night is a collection of Middle Eastern, West Asian and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.The stories proceed from an original tale of ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade where some stories are framed within other stories, while others begin and end of their own accord. This edition contains more than 1001 tales of romance, erotica, supernatural and adventure along with copious notes transport you into the land of magic and nostalgia.

Autor

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator and diplomat. Burton's best-known achievements include a well-documented journey to Mecca, in disguise; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English and an expedition with J. H. Spake to discover the source of Nile.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.8.2021
• Übersetzer: Richard Francis Burton
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Schlagworte: andrew lang • Arabian Nights stories • Arabic literature compilation • exotic settings • F. Scott Fitzgerald • I Am Malala • Islamic Golden Age tales • Khaled Hosseini • magic and romance • Mark Twain • Middle Eastern folklore • One Thousand and One Nights collection • •Salman Rushdie • Scheherazade's storytelling • Shakespeare • silent scream • Supernatural adventures • Tales within tales • The Girl With No Past • The Secret Daughter