En ook al zitten hier heerlijke verhalen tussen, vol fantasie en verbeelding, er zijn ook veel saaie stukken die bovendien heel vaak herhaald worden in een opeenvolging van verhaaltjes die dan steeds een variatie zijn op hetzelfde them Normaal gezien lees ik zonder twijfelen de onverkorte versie van een boek, want zo heeft de auteur het bedoeld. Maar hier had ik er beter wat langer over nagedacht: hier is geen auteur die iets bedoeld heeft, dit zijn mondelinge verhalen die op schrift zijn gezet. Normaal gezien lees ik zonder twijfelen de onverkorte versie van een boek, want zo heeft de auteur het bedoeld. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Translator), Robert Irwin (Annotations), Paperback, 878 pages, Published February 4th 2010 by Penguin Classics, Edition Language: English The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2, Anonymous, Malcolm C.
To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel of Death and magical spirits, and of jinni's trapped in rings and in lamps-a sequence of stories that will last 1,001 nights, and that will save her own life. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880's.Įvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Translator), Robert Irwin (Annotations)įrom Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable.
Every night for three years the venge The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2, Anonymous, Malcolm C. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880's. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Translator), Robert Irwin (Annotations) From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel of Death and magical spirits, and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps-a sequence of stories that will last 1,001 nights, and that will save her own life.more Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880s.Įvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English transl The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literatureįrom Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable.