| The Fantasy Tales of the Arabian Nights: The Arabian Nights Contributor(s): Shaikh, Razzab (Author) |
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ISBN: 1790326893 ISBN-13: 9781790326891 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Series: Arabian Nights |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.54 lbs) 162 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These old stories, never forgotten, were taken down in writing in different ages, but mostly in this century, in all sorts of languages. These ancient stories are the contents of the Fairy books.Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East. The people of Asia, Arabia, and Persia told them in their own way, not for children, but for grown-up people. There were no novels then, nor any printed books, of course; but there were people whose profession it was to amuse men and women by telling tales. The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women incountry places tell to their grandchildren. Nobody knows how old they are, orwho told them first. And that some of them were written down in Egypt about the time of Moses. People in different countries tell them differently, but they are always the same stories, really, whether among little Zulus, at the Cape, or little Eskimo, near the North Pole. The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such as wearing clothes or not, meeting lions who talk in the warm countries, or talking bears in the cold countries. There are plenty of kings and queens in the fairy tales, just because long ago there were plenty of kings in the country. A gentleman who would be a squire now was a kind of king in Scotland in very old times, and the same in other places. These old stories, never forgotten, were taken down in writing in different ages, but mostly in this century, in all sorts of languages. These ancient stories are the contents of the Fairy books.Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in thisvolume, are only fairy tales of the East. The people of Asia, Arabia, and Persiatold them in their own way, not for children, but for grown-up people. Therewere no novels then, nor any printed books, of course; but there were peoplewhose profession it was to amuse men and women by telling tales. Theydressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Mahommedans, living in Bagdad or India. The events were often supposed to happen in thereign of the great Caliph, or ruler of the Faithful, Haroun al Raschid, who livedin Bagdad in 786-808 A.D. The vizir who accompanies the Caliph was also areal person of the great family of the Barmecides. He was put to death by theCaliph in a very cruel way, nobody ever knew why. The stories must have beentold in their present shape a good long while after the Caliph died, whennobody knew very exactly what had really happened. At last some storytellerthought of writing down the tales, and fixing them into a kind of framework, asif they had all been narrated to a cruel Sultan by his wife.pieces are given in this book.In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidae, who reigned forabout four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the greatriver Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who wassaid to be the best monarch of his time. His subjects loved him, and hisneighbors feared him, and when he died he left his kingdom in a moreprosperous and powerful condition than any king had done before him.The two sons who survived him loved each other tenderly, and it was a realgrief to the elder, Schahriar, that the laws of the empire forbade him to share hisdominions with his brother Schahzeman. Indeed, after ten years, during whichthis state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the countryof Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king.Now the Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world, and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendor, and to give herthe finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels. It was therefore with thedeepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, ..... |