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Loading... The Arabian Nights' Entertainments or the Book of a Thousand Nights and a…by A. S. Byatt
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. **** The Thousand and One Nights is one of the great story collections of world literature. I fault this volume partly because some of Burton's choices of language are obscure and partly because what I really want is the entire work, not just a selected set of stories. (  ) Anansi_in_Texas | Jun 1, 2008 |  A bit thick with print on the smaller side, but a excellent compilation. Notes were helpful. Good intro and preface (  )1  LydieR | May 3, 2007 | Sir Richard Burton's translation presents a nice selection of the stories. He's chosen many of the most popular tales, (including Aladdin), plus a large number of lesser-known - but still highly entertaining - stories. His translations are perhaps a tad colonial, but in most cases I found that he managed to capture that Arabian feel pretty nicely. I do have one major complaint with Burton's work, though: he hasn't paragraphed at all. As a result, this book is a very slow read. It doesn't flow nearly as well as it should, and it's difficult to stop in the middle of what are sometimes very long stories. Still, the mass market paperback edition is very reasonably priced, and it's a rewarding collection if you can manage to wade through it. (  )1 xicanti | Oct 22, 2006 | This is it- the original most famous translation of the Arabian nights. It's richly and lavishly written, tending to the overwrought, and only slightly bowlderized, but it's still a fun read. As entertaining as it is, it is also a fine insight into the Victoiran facination with all things "oriental." 1 Selkie | Jan 18, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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