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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 9
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This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the ninth of sixteen volumes translated by Burton.
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the ninth of sixteen volumes translated by Burton.
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Community Reviews
What I learned from this book is that pretty much all women are deceitful whores, many of them are also witches, and they should all be put to death. As you can imagine, this message grew tiresome, and eventually, I decided I'd had enough. I only made it to somewhere in the vicinity of Night 20, but
JThe classic Richard Burton translation of the Thousand and One Nights, based on the much longer Egyptian version (I've already read the shorter Syrian version which is equivalent to the first volume and a half of this), published in ten volumes plus six supplementary volumes. Since this is a Projec
I picked this one for the Pop Sugar challenge (published anonymously). Thank goodness this was only one of the 16 volumes. Tale of Genji had been the longest book on my TBR list, but this was up there and it was only ONE volume! Ugh.
There are definitely some cultural things I didn't grasp, but the w
Arabian nights tales has always have a special place in my heart, for its wonderful plot and unexpected events happened through each story.
30 nights into this colossus of a tale containing a staggering amount of layers of stories, I have taken away the following:
Women are deceitful and unfaithful by nature, and it is a reasonable thing to kill them if they are found guilty of adultery. Better make sure that they are actually guilty _be
Reading some reviews of this book you either love it or you hate it, maybe I just didn't get it. I had set out to listen to the whole collection, a huge undertaking but I figured, what the heck, they seem to be important books so I'll check them out. The stories are fine but get somewhat repetitive
Update 3: I've read 15 volumes, only 2 left. Strangely, the two most famous tales from the Nights, Aladdin and Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, are not in Richard Burton's "official canon" but are rather in the supplemental volumes, in several versions by different translators.
Update 2: I have finished