1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: Scheherezade (1953) Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

By A. J. Arberry Copyright 1953
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The introduction provides a brief analysis of earlier translations of the tales and explains their value as indicators of the society in which they were written. This work will be of interest to... Read more

Introduction; Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp; Judar and his Brothers; Aboukir and Abousir; The Amorous Gouldsmith

Biography

A. J. Arberry