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The Arabian Nights: A Norton Critical Edition
Husain Haddawy Trans.
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Description for The Arabian Nights: A Norton Critical Edition
paperback. This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Editor(s): Mahdi, Muhsin; Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Translator(s): Haddawy, Husain. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
“Contexts” presents three of the oldest witnesses to The Arabian Nights in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas‘udi’s Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim’s The Fihrist. Also included ... Read more
Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
“Contexts” presents three of the oldest witnesses to The Arabian Nights in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas‘udi’s Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim’s The Fihrist. Also included ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393928082
SKU
V9780393928082
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About Husain Haddawy Trans.
Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand. Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of The Enemy of All: Piracy ... Read more
Reviews for The Arabian Nights: A Norton Critical Edition
"A fine new translation. Bawdy, colloquial and wondrously inventive."
Michiko Kakutani - New York Times "Easily the clearest, most fluent and readable translation."
A. S. Byatt - Sunday Times [London] "The resourceful Shahrazad has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book."
Doris Lessing - The Independent "A distinguished new ... Read more
Michiko Kakutani - New York Times "Easily the clearest, most fluent and readable translation."
A. S. Byatt - Sunday Times [London] "The resourceful Shahrazad has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book."
Doris Lessing - The Independent "A distinguished new ... Read more