A hundred and one nights /
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Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, 2016. |
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Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English Arabic |
Series: | Library of Arabic Literature Library of Arabic literature. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12016711 |
Other uniform titles: | Miʼat laylah wa-laylah. English. Miʼat laylah wa-laylah. |
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Other authors / contributors: | Fudge, Bruce, 1967- editor, translator. |
ISBN: | 9780814745304 081474530X 9780814771716 0814771718 9780814745199 0814745199 9780814745199 |
Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. In English and Arabic. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
Summary: | Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier's daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, A Hundred and One Nights is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than Thousand and One Nights, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder. |
Other form: | Print version: Hundred and one nights. New York : New York University Press, 2016 9780814745199 |
Standard no.: | 10.18574/9780814745304 |
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