Scheherazade saved her life by telling "tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion" to the brutal King Shahryar. The tales were first introduced into the West in 1704. This book is a modern edition, based on Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation. It restores the "sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic.

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This book was mailed to EmgeeNL of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

I hope you enjoy this book, EmgeeNL.

I received the book, thanks for sending Tabby-cat-owner.

It took me a while to read it, my excuses for taking so long. But it is truly worth the read. Some stories were completely new to me while others I already partly knew (Alladin, Sinbad the seaman, etc.). This book makes me want to read the fairy tales by the brothers Grimm. I have the book in my bookcase, but I think I'm going to move it to my nightstand :).

Somehow i cannot make a release note so through this note I'll let you guys know that the book started it's journey to Spain today where Soffitta1 will give it a home for the time being :)

Thanks for posting this, I have had it on my wishlist for ages. Please let me know if I can send you any 1001-Library books in return.

Recently I have read many books that have been familiar already due to adaptations, The Arabian Nights is like this. No ready comes to this book without some prior exposure to one or more of the tales. This collection brings together Aladdin and his magic lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sinbad, to name but three. What is different is that what we have here are fuller, more exotic, more complicated tales, intertwined, stories within stories like a literary Russian doll.

The stories are bound together by their narrator, Scheherazade, a clever woman who fights for her life, and consequently that of others, through her story telling. Her husband, King Shahryar, cuckolded and humiliated by his first wife, takes out his wrath on his following wives. He marries them, spends the wedding night with them, then has them executed the next morning, thus ensuring never to be cheated on again. Scheherazade has a plan, she weaves a tale, then breaks off at dawn, whetting the king's appetite for more of the story, and so making him grant her a stay of execution.

Despite the fantastical nature of the stories- Jinns, magic and strange beasts -, the reader can glean a lot of cultural and social information. Scheherazade chooses her stories well, with themes of betrayal, revenge, love, marriage and the sexes, she slowly educates her husband so he will see fit to remove the executioner's shadow from her life for good.

If you enjoy a good story and would like to read the unsanitised version of classic tales, then this is your book. I would advise you, however, to read it in chunks as some stories are similar in theme. As for my favourite story, I enjoyed reading the tale of the hunch-back, the stories which come together, especially that of the verbose “silent” barber. This edition comes with a good note on the text and afterword, providing background information on Richard Burton and the stories.

Chosen from the Euro 1001-Library VBB.

Chosen from the Euro 1001-Library VBB.

Thank you, Soffitta1, for making this book available.
It arrived safely at my place and will have a temporary home here. Look forward to read it!

During my childhood I had already read parts of the 1001-nights stories. I never came across the official version, untill I got this book.

So... I have finished reading it today. Read it in parts, everybtime I picked up the book I read as much as I wanted. It isn't a book (at least for me it wasn't) to read without pauses.

I liked it and I loved to finally learn what fate had in store for Scheherazade and her sister.

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Took this book from the book table to be released somewhere in the centre of Bordeaux during the release walk.

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