The Arabian Nights

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Daniel Heller-Roazen (Editor), Husain Haddawy (Translator), Muhsin Mahdi (Editor)

Write A Review

Paperback | 5 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
544 Pages

Edition Type
Critical

Dimensions(cm)
21 x 12.5 x 3.5

Paperback

$61.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $15.44 with

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.

Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.

“Contexts” presents three of the oldest witnesses to The Arabian Nights in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas‘udi’s Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim’s The Fihrist. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn.

“Criticism” collects eleven wide-ranging essays on The Arabian Nights’ central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault.

A Chronology of The Arabian Nights and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Industry Reviews

"A fine new translation. Bawdy, colloquial and wondrously inventive." -- Michiko Kakutani - New York Times "Easily the clearest, most fluent and readable translation." -- A. S. Byatt - Sunday Times [London] "Indispensable. Not a new version of an old favorite, but a work we've never known." -- Geoffrey O'Brien - Voice Literary Supplement "A distinguished new translation." -- Edward Said - The Nation "The resourceful Shahrazad has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book." -- Doris Lessing - The Independent

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.