Arabian Nght Nce Pa

by Heller-Roazen,Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780393928082
• ISBN10: 039392808X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780393242409
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-28
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

A Note on the Text

The Text of The Arabian Nights

Foreword

Prologue

[The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]

[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]

[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]

[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]

[The First Old Man's Tale]

[The Second Old Man's Tale]

[The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban]

[The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot]

[The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul]

[The Tale of the Enchanted King]

[The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies]

[The First Dervish's Tale]

[The Second Dervish's Tale]

[The Tale of the Envious and the Envied]

[The Third Dervish's Tale]

[The Tale of the First Lady, the Mistress of the House]

[The Tale of the Second Lady, the Flogged One]

[The Story of the Three Apples]

[The Story of the Two Viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Misri and Bar al-Din Hasan al-Basri]

[The Story of the Hunchback]

[The Christian Broker's Tale: The Young Man with the Severed Hand and the Girl]

[The Steward's Tale: The Young Man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's Maid]

[The Tailor's Tale: The Lame Young Man from Baghdad and the Barber]

[The Tale of the Second Brother, Baqbaqa the Paraplegic]

[The Tale of the Fifth Brother, the Cropped of Ears]

[The Story of Jullanar of the Sea]

[The Story of Sindbad the Sailor]

Contexts

Early Witnesses

Anonymous • A Ninth-Century Fragment of the Thousand Nights

Meadows of Gold (Muruj al-Dhahab)

The Fihrist

Modern Echoes

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

From Remembrance of Things Past

From The Dreams of Scheherazade

Criticism

A Thousand and One Nights

The Origins of The Arabian Nights

The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights

The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture

From The Art of Story-Telling

Narrative Men

A Comic Romance from The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers

Neglected Conclusions of The Arabian Nights

Madness and Cure in the 1001 Nights

The Eye and the Needle

Story-Telling Techniques in The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

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