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The Arabian Nights (AmazonClassics Edition) by [Andrew Lang]

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The vengeful King Schahriar agrees to stave off the execution of Queen Scheherazade until she finishes a particularly compelling story. Her plan? Bleed one tale into another. Through fanciful histories, romances, tragedies, comedies, poems, riddles, and songs, Scheherazade prolongs her life by holding the king’s rapt attention.

With origins in Persian and Eastern Indian folklore, the stories of The Arabian Nights have been reworked, reshaped, revised, collected, and supplemented throughout the centuries by various authors and scholars—and are continually redefined by the modern translations of the Western world.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Arabian Nights, this edition of The Arabian Nights (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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“Whoso meddles in affairs that are no business of his, will hear truths that will not please him.”
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Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, anthropologist, historian, literary critic, and noted collector of folklore and fairy tales.

Educated at the prestigious University of St. Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, Lang became a published poet, editor, and journalist by the time he was thirty-one. He was fascinated by folklore, myths, local legends, and fairy tales throughout his entire life. Lang’s debut work, The Blue Fairy Book, was the first of twenty-five collections of stories for children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ AmazonClassics (September 5, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Quang Do

a literary masterpiece

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2023

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One's imagination can run wild with reading the tales of Arabian Nights

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2022

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The Arabian Nights needs no review, as a classic. It is the delight of all story lovers, young and old. I read it first as a teenager, and now at age 80! The stories are as delightful as when I read them first. Translated beautifully into The type of prose fit for the best of stories in the world!

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charsha

It has so many great stories perfect for boys and girls

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2022

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It was a great book but it has to much witchcraft

I chose it because my parents told me to read it and I found it was great

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bestenglish

Culturally enlightening

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2021

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In these difficult times the efforts of Muhsin Mahdi, professor of Arabic at Harvard, have presented us with a new text, and Husain Haddawy, professor of English at the University of Nevada at Reno, has translated it into modern English bringing us back to the true heart of a proud and humble culture all should remember.

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Thomas R. Bodenlos

Good stories to revisit

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While reading “The Uses of Enchantment the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, I felt I needed to review some of the stories referred to in that book to re-experience such stories without the deep breakdown shown in “The Uses of Enchantment”. The Arabian Nights tales were wise in their understanding of human nature and illuminating in ways that still provide value in our current time.

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J. A. Hammer

Interesting Collection

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2016

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This is basically the Grimm Fairy Tales equivalent for East Asia, India, and the Middle East. You can imagine these tales told orally by skillful speakers.

There are stories within stories within stories, an interesting device. (It's like "Inception," where you go down the dream layers and then have to return upwards, and then you have to try and remember the upper layers after time away from them.)

There are lots of kings and rulers and beautiful princesses and handsome princes. Very few good-looking people turn out to be jerks. There is magic and magical creatures, but not in every story. It's a great look at human imagination over the generations.

These are the main lessons from these tales: Traits such as industry, wisdom, graciousness, and generosity are admired. Greed, dishonesty, and laziness are scorned. Wealth is admired so long as you are generous with it. A good story may save your life. A good sob story will make people feel sorry for you and give you money. Everyone eventually gets what they deserve. Punishments are harsh, so beware!

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Sherilyn Powell

Down a Childhood Memory Lane

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2015

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Kids used to be introduced to these tales as a part of growing up, even though they might not have known the familiar stories were from this book. As children we thought the culture behind this collection was so exotic, but yet the concept was so understandable -- here are people from a different era and a different part of the world, yet we understand them and are interested in their experiences as if they were anything like our own. There's something endearing about the timelessness of this collection, though the stories are so many and are repetitive. I think that's why we were exposed to the individual tales in bits and pieces; the book cannot hold a child's attention when delivered as a whole. An adult will find things in it that nostalgically remind him of something from his childhood -- too bad developments in the modern world have spoiled the comfortable concept of Arabian Nights for us.

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Sparkle

A labyrinth of incredible stories!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2009

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Excitement, intrigue, suspense.... really, just great story telling! As a child, you read of Sinband the Sailor and rubbing a magic lamp to find a genie with three wishes. As an adult, you can bring this all back by reading this well wrtten/translated labyrinth of stories. Each storyteller has a story and one leads to another, all interwoven. It is hard to put down.

Before you think this is just an old fashioned, studious piece of literature, believe me, it is so imaginative and rich. Each story is relatively short, so you can read at your own pace; either one story a night, or several stories at a time.

This is a great read for those who love to be swept away to a different time and place. I could see readers of Harry Potter, adventure readers and even those with a short attention span who prefer to read short stories enjoying these Arabian tales!I can't wait to recommend this old school book to my friends. They'll be so surprised!

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George the Red

It works well on my Kindle and iOS devices and I enjoyed reading it from cover to cover

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 29, 2016

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Since this is free to download it's hard to complain about it. It works well on my Kindle and iOS devices and I enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. It took me back to the Victorian hardback I read as bedtime stories to my now grownup daughters. Four out of five stars from me - it would have been five stars but for it's missing out Alibaba and the forty thieves. So no 'Open Sesame' in this one

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Geoff

Classical and compelling stories .

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 11, 2022

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An ancient and founding piece of literature on which many stories and ideas have been influenced. A very good read.

Tonman

Astoundingly inventive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2015

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Fascinating picture of the times. The stories are funny, and naughty and the invention never ends.
I did find that it became too repetitious for me as each story developed into ever more complex knots.
I skipped all the poetry, and there's masses of it, and if you have what it takes to enjoy that, you'd surely enjoy this even more than I did.
Nonetheless, it's one to relish, perhaps in smallish bites, taken often.

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Gosia Hanus

Magic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 28, 2019

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I read this book when I was a child and I remember how magical it felt. Now I am older and more sceptical but still it holds a spell over me. As I like the legends of other nations, I recognised one of the tales from Chinese legends . Overall, it's magical.

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Thoroughly Enjoyable And Interesting Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 29, 2013

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I have never read The Arabian Nights before, so I was glad when I was able to purchase this edition.

I very much enjoyed reading this edition by Andrew Lang, as it was well laid out. There is an active table of contents at the start of this book. My two favourite stories are The Merchant And The Fisherman and The Story Of the Fisherman.

I would recommend this book as suitable for both adults and children to read.

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