PlainTales Classics: Tales from the Arabian Nights (Series #5) (CD-Audio)

from reading_fox

Doesn't contain all the known Arabian fairy tales, if such a thing is possible. Most notable exception is Ali Baba and the fourty thieves. This edition is based on one of the early french compilations by Antoine Gallard, and translated inot English by Andrew Lang. In the process Gallard dropped t...

from lkernagh

My other half has been hounding me for sometime now to read the One Thousand and One Nights tales that were such a favorite of his when he was a child. Given how big a tome the complete (if there is such a thing) collection of stories is, I compromised and decided to read the shorter collection o...

from David.Loeff

This edition of the Arabian Nights contains only the most popular stories and none of the adult content that Sir Richard Francis Burton included in his multi-volume translation.However, this translation is suitable for children while Burton's translation is not. Although Andrew Lang's language ca...

from LCoale1

I didn't know what I was getting into when I started reading this book. I had heard a few references to the Arabian Nights, mainly that it was a highly scandalous book. That's it. So, of course, I had to read it. Arabian Nights is a book of Arabian fairy tales. There's genii (singular = genius. t...

from caseybp

A magnificent collection of stories. I wonder how much has been edited. A great introduction to the tales.