The Arabian Nights
| Book | كِتَاب أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 2010 |
| English Title | One Thousand and One Nights |
| Author | Anonymous |
| Editor | Daniel Heller-Roazen |
| Translated by | Husain Haddawy |
| Contributing Writer | Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Ṭaha Ḥusayn, Al Mas'udi, Ibn Isḥāq al-Nadim, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfeld, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, David Pinnault |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publisher Series | Norton Critical Editions |
| Copyright Holder | W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Copyright | 2010 |
| Pages / Font | xiv+523 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-92808-2 |
| Chapters | PREFACE...vii
A Note on the Text...xv
THE TEXT OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS...1
Foreword...3
Prologue: [The Story of King Shahryar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]...5
...[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]...13
...[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]...15
...[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]...18
...[The First Old Man's Tale]...23
...[The Second Old Man's Tale]...26
...[The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon]...20
...[The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban]...36
...[The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot]...41
...[The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul]...41
...[The Tale of the Enchanted King]...56
...[The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies]...66
...[The First Dervish's Tale]...85
...[The Second Dervish's Tale]...91
...[The Tale of the Envious and the Envied]...100
...[The Third Dervish's Tale]...113
...[The Tale of the First Lady, the Mistress of the House]...133
...[The Tale of the Second Lady, the Flogged One]...140
...[The Story of the Three Apples]...148
...[The Story of the Two Viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Masri and Badr al-Din Hasan al-Basri]...155
...[The Story of the Hunchback]...203
...[The Christian Broker's Tale: The Young Man with the Severed Hand and the Girl]...211
...[The Steward's Tale: The Young Man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's Maid]...224
...[The Tailor's Tale: The Lame Young Man from Baghdad and the Barber]...234
...[The Tale of the Second Brother, Baqbaqa the Paraplegic]...250
...[The Tale of the Fifth Brother, the Cropped of Ears]...253
...[The Story of Jullanar of the Sea]...260
The Story of Sindbad the Sailor...303
CONTEXTS: Early Witnesses...353
Anonymous: A Ninth-Century Fragment of the Thousand Nights...353
Al Mas'udi: Meadows of Gold (Murūj al'Dhahab)...353
Ibn Isḥāq al-Nadim: The Fihrist...354
CONTEXTS: Modern Echoes...356
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”…356
Marcel Proust: From Remembrance of Things Past...372
Ṭaha Ḥusayn: From The Dreams of Scheherazade...375
CRITICISM...379
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: A Thousand and One Nights...381
Josef Horovitz: The Origins of the Arabian Nights...386
Jorge Luis Borges: The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights...409
Francesco Gabrieli: The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture...426
Mia Irene Gerhardt: From The Art of Story-Telling...433
Tzvetan Todorov: Narrative-Men...443
Andras Hamori: A Comic Romance from The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers...453
Heinz Grotzfeld: Neglected Conclusions of the Arabian Nights: Gleanings in Forgotten and Overlooked Recensions...470
Jerome W. Clinton: Madness and Cure in the 1001 Nights...485
Abdelfattah Kilito: The Eye and the Needle...500
David Pinnault: Story-Telling Techniques in The Arabian Nights...504
The Arabian Nights: A Chronology...520
Selected Bibliography...522
PREFACE...vii
A Note on the Text...xv
THE TEXT OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS...1
Foreword...3
Prologue: [The Story of King Shahryar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]...5
...[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]...13
...[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]...15
...[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]...18
...[The First Old Man's Tale]...23
...[The Second Old Man's Tale]...26
...[The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon]...20
...[The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban]...36
...[The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot]...41
...[The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul]...41
...[The Tale of the Enchanted King]...56
...[The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies]...66
...[The First Dervish's Tale]...85
...[The Second Dervish's Tale]...91
...[The Tale of the Envious and the Envied]...100
...[The Third Dervish's Tale]...113
...[The Tale of the First Lady, the Mistress of the House]...133
...[The Tale of the Second Lady, the Flogged One]...140
...[The Story of the Three Apples]...148
...[The Story of the Two Viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Masri and Badr al-Din Hasan al-Basri]...155
...[The Story of the Hunchback]...203
...[The Christian Broker's Tale: The Young Man with the Severed Hand and the Girl]...211
...[The Steward's Tale: The Young Man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's Maid]...224
...[The Tailor's Tale: The Lame Young Man from Baghdad and the Barber]...234
...[The Tale of the Second Brother, Baqbaqa the Paraplegic]...250
...[The Tale of the Fifth Brother, the Cropped of Ears]...253
...[The Story of Jullanar of the Sea]...260
The Story of Sindbad the Sailor...303
CONTEXTS: Early Witnesses...353
Anonymous: A Ninth-Century Fragment of the Thousand Nights...353
Al Mas'udi: Meadows of Gold (Murūj al'Dhahab)...353
Ibn Isḥāq al-Nadim: The Fihrist...354
CONTEXTS: Modern Echoes...356
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”…356
Marcel Proust: From Remembrance of Things Past...372
Ṭaha Ḥusayn: From The Dreams of Scheherazade...375
CRITICISM...379
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: A Thousand and One Nights...381
Josef Horovitz: The Origins of the Arabian Nights...386
Jorge Luis Borges: The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights...409
Francesco Gabrieli: The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture...426
Mia Irene Gerhardt: From The Art of Story-Telling...433
Tzvetan Todorov: Narrative-Men...443
Andras Hamori: A Comic Romance from The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers...453
Heinz Grotzfeld: Neglected Conclusions of the Arabian Nights: Gleanings in Forgotten and Overlooked Recensions...470
Jerome W. Clinton: Madness and Cure in the 1001 Nights...485
Abdelfattah Kilito: The Eye and the Needle...500
David Pinnault: Story-Telling Techniques in The Arabian Nights...504
The Arabian Nights: A Chronology...520
Selected Bibliography...522
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