The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
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The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is a cycle of stories that come from Arabia and Persia. There are different layers of the stories:
- Outermost is the story of Queen Scheherazade who needs to entertain her husband, or she would be put to death.
- The next layer is made up of the actual stories (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, etc.)
- In those stories, there is often also a narrator who tells things.
According to a legend, anyone who reads all 1001 stories will become mad.
[edit] References
- The Thousand Nights and a Night in several classic translations, including unexpurgated version by Sir Francis Burton, and John Payne translation, with additional material.
- Stories From One Thousand and One Nights, (Lane and Poole translation): Project Bartleby edition
- The Arabian Nights (includes Lang and (expurgated) Burton translations): Electronic Literature Foundation editions
- The Medieval Arabic Nights - a study
- Jonathan Scott translation of Arabian Nights
- Notes on the influences and context of the Thousand and One Nights
- 1001 Resources and Links for A Thousand and One Nights University of Houston
- The Book of the Thousand and One Nights by John Crocker
- (expurgated) Sir Burton's ~1885 translation, annotated for English study.
- Arabian Nights' Tales Dedicated site with just the stories of 1001 nights listed in order.
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