The Arabian Nights Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974298531 ISBN-13: 9781974298532 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.68 lbs) 126 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Arabian Nights By Andrew Lang The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") - a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th-13th centuries) - by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the "Arabian Nights" until the Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons translation in 2008. |