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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1815. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 253 THE HISTORY OF THE AMOURS OF CAMARALZAMAN, PRINCE OF THE ISLE OF THE CHILDREN OF KIIALEDAN, AND OF BADOURA, PRINCESS OF CHINA. About twenty days sail from the coast of Persia, sire, there is, in the open sea, an island, which is called the Isle of the Children of Khaledan. This island is dirided into several large provinces, with many large flourishing and well-peopled towns scattered over them, and forms altogether a very powerful kingdom. It was formerly governed by a king, named Sehahzaman, who had four wives, as was the custom ; all daughters of kings, and sixty concubines. Schahzaman esteemed himself the happiest sovereign on the whole face of the earth, on account of the tranquillity and prosperity of his reign. One thing alone affected his happiness ; he was already far advanced in years,and he had no children, notwithstanding he had so great a number of wives. He could not account in any way for this circumstance; and in the moments of his affliction he considered it as. the greatest misfortune that could befal him, to die without leaving a successor to the throne, who wa� descended from him. He, for a considerable time, concealed the tormenting anxiety that preyed upon liitn; and he suffered so much the more as he endeaoured to assume an air of cheerfulness. At length lie broke silence; and one day having complained of VOL. ii. 2 c his misfortune in the bitterest terms of sorrow, in a private conversation he had with his grand vizier, he asked him if he knew of any means to remedy so great an evil. " If what your majesty requires," replied this wise minister, "depended on the common interference of human wisdom, you might soon have the gratification you so ardently desire; but I confess, my experience and knowledge is not equal to solve what you as...
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- Published on: 1981-05
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"[A] book...that captivates in childhood, and still delights in age."
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Arabic
From the Inside Flap
Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
�� The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
�� This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Nice, but NOT the Burton translation. Ripoff.
By Amazon Customer
This version of "Arabian Nights" is nice (as are the illustrations) but this is not the version translated by Sir Richard Burton. Regardless of what the cover says, the first page reflects that the translation/version is by Andrew Lang. Formally called "The Arabian Nights Entertainments", it is available for free (with the illustrations even) from Project Gutenberg.
41 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
Not Complete
By K. Ferriero
This is a beautiful addition to add to any serious readers shelf. However, that is about it.
This edition is largely incomplete. I bought this as a reading replacement to a very old edition I have translated by M. Galland, as I didn't want to harm an already very old and fragile book.
This edition has 21 large chapters, my original has 69. Although some of the stories have been amalgamated into 1 large chapter(eg. the Barbers various stories, and the seven voyages of Sinbad), the book totally leaves out each history of the Calendars. Also left out are some smaller tales, namely, the story of the little hunchback, the tales told by the jewish doctor, christian merchant, sultan of Casgars purveyor, Zobeide, Amina, and Zidi Nouman.
Also left out are the history of the Greek King and Douban the Physician, the Vizier who was punished, the husband and the parrot and so on for a few more, but I feel as if I have listed enough to get the point across. If you want a decorative book to adorn your shelf with, than this is for you. However, if you want a complete work to enjoy, I would skip this.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
magnificent panoply of richly detailed stories
By Bruce D. Wilner
Burton weaves an entire world, dazzling in its splendor and detail if arguably ethnocentric, e.g., in its depiction of working-class Arabs as thieves, liars, schemers, and plotters--who, in some cases, beat their own mothers until gently "corrected" by the sultan's bastinado. I agree with many of my fellow reviewers that Burton's English can present difficulties--in some cases, exceptional difficulties--though those who can read the King James Bible of 1611 should have no difficulty with Burton's Victorian vocabulary and sentence structures. (To be quite honest, the lack of a single paragraph break is more troubling--foreboding, even, at first sight--than the choice of vocabulary. Just be warned that words that you think you know you really don't know, unless you consider the underlying Greek or Latin roots. For example, "prevent" means "come before," which--while counterintuitive to the modern reader--makes perfect sense insofar as 'pre-' is Latin for 'before' and 'venire' is Latin for 'come'.) Prepare to be seduced, astonished, and bewildered by the fantastic magic of the world that Burton offers us--noting, albeit, that his world is a melange of cultural elements culled from the Arabian peninsula, Iran, India, Turkey, even Morocco--and be admonished that there is plenty of detailed erotic content (sometimes bowdlerized as "they fell to a-dallying with one another" or some such) that is best kept from younger children. Admittedly, the collection of footnotes at the end--and the continual restarting of numbering from tale to tale--can present a hindrance, but this should not present a problem, as the footnotes seldom deal with the actual flow of the story, instead offering obscure (even pedantic) historical or linguistic minutiae. Lastly, as a cultural backdrop against which to evaluate and ponder these stories, consider that the Middle East of Burton's collection represented the erstwhile summit of man's achievements: while illiterate Europeans were slaving away as landed noblemen's serfs, living in rude wooden huts, and fleeing like frightened rats from hordes of invading Mongols or bands of merciless Viking raiders, ninth-century Middle Easterners lived in splendid cities; enjoyed written fluency in their native languages; exercised religious freedom; and engaged in bold, productive research in medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and pharmacy at the sultan's behest and sponsorship.
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