The Arabian nights

Author(s)

• Haddawy, Husain
• Mahdi, Muhsin

Bibliographic Information

The Arabian nights

translated by Husain Haddawy ; based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi

W.W. Norton & Company, 1995, c1990

Norton pbk. ed

• : pbk

Other Title

الف ليلة وليلة

The Arabian nights : based on the text edited by Muhsin Mahdi

The Arabian nights : based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi

Uniform Title

Arabian nights

Note

Created due to the change of physical description

"Newly issued in a Norton paperback edition 1995"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi's reconstruction of the original "Nights". The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfilment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.

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Details

• NCID: BB06509919
• ISBN:
  • 0393313670
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxx, 428 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PJ7715
  • DC21 : 398.22
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Arabian nights
  • LCSH : Folk literature, Arabic -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : Short stories, Arabic -- Translations into English
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA00017464