New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Languages : en
Pages : 122

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new arabian nights From Robert Louis Stevenson

New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books)

The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books) PDF Author: Paulo Lemos Horta
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631493647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 986

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“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully.” —Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker A magnificent and richly illustrated volume—with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images—of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton, Edward Lane, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations break decisively with this masculine dynasty, finally stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings while reclaiming the vitality and delight of the stories, as she works with equal skill in both Arabic and French. Included within are famous tales, from “The Story of Sinbad the Sailor” to “The Story of the Fisherman and the Jinni,” as well as lesser-known stories such as “The Story of Dalila the Crafty,” in which the cunning heroine takes readers into the everyday life of merchants and shopkeepers in a crowded metropolis, and “The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni,” an example of a ransom frame tale in which stories are exchanged to save a life. Grounded in the latest scholarship, The Annotated Arabian Nights also incorporates the Hanna Diyab stories, for centuries seen as French forgeries but now acknowledged, largely as a result of Horta’s pathbreaking research, as being firmly rooted in the Arabic narrative tradition. Horta not only takes us into the astonishing twists and turns of the stories’ evolution. He also offers comprehensive notes on just about everything readers need to know to appreciate the tales in context, and guides us through the origins of ghouls, jinn, and other supernatural elements that have always drawn in and delighted readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with art from Europe and the Arab and Persian world, the latter often ignored in English-language editions, The Annotated Arabian Nights expands the visual dimensions of the stories, revealing how the Nights have always been—and still are—in dialogue with fine artists. With a poignant autobiographical foreword from best-selling novelist Omar El Akkad and an illuminating afterword on the Middle Eastern roots of Hanna Diyab’s tales from noted scholar Robert Irwin, Horta and Seale have created a stunning edition of the Arabian Nights that will enchant and inform both devoted and novice readers alike.

The Dynamiter

The Dynamiter PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights PDF Author: Wafa' Tarnowska
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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From Lebanese writer Wafa' Tarnowska and Spanish artist Carole Hénaff, this magnificent new edition of The Arabian Nights brings together famous and less familiar tales from A Thousand and One Nights and includes the frame story of Shahrazade and Shahriyar.

The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

New Perspectives on Arabian Nights PDF Author: Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317983939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ Following a Nights story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.

New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Languages : en
Pages : 122

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new arabian nights From Robert Louis Stevenson

New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights PDF Author: Robert Stevenson
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Languages : en
Pages : 257

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New arabian nights From Robert Louis Stevenson

New Arabian Nights

New Arabian Nights PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "New Arabian Nights" by Robert Louis Stevenson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The New Arabian Nights

The New Arabian Nights PDF Author: Robert Stevenson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781548649203
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Languages : en
Pages : 222

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New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English short story tradition. New Arabian Nights is divided into two volumes. The first volume contains seven stories originally called Later-day Arabian Nights and published by London Magazine in serial format from June to October 1878. It is composed of two story groups, or cycles: "The Suicide Club" "The Rajah's Diamond" The second volume is a collection of four unconnected (standalone) stories that were previously published in magazines: "The Pavilion on the Links", told in 9 mini-chapters "A Lodging for the Night" "The Sire De Mal�troits Door" "Providence and the Guitar"