ARABIAN NIGHT

Loved the book in every way The only issue was that it got delivered almost after 20 days...the seller didn't despatch the order quickly, nor did he even upload the pre-paid invoice...

Absolutely wonderful. Very happy with the purchase. The cover is very beautiful and the illustrations are also very beautiful. The pages are average but let's be honest, we don't buy books because of the quality of the pages. Absolutely wonderful.

I love the Packaging..& the print is very clear & happy to get before the stipulated time 😍😍😍A must book for book lovers.

Haven't read yet. The Book (Modern library 2004 edition mass market paperback) is lightweight and small (equal to the size of your palm). Yet the book contains more than 1000 pages. Smallness of the book disappointed me at first. But, I hope content would be gold. A cursory glance of the book convinced me that The translation is lofty and rhythmic. In preface, Richard Burton (the translator) says that he is in love with the source material. He took up the task to come out of his ennui. As such, the book has not come out of the necessity but out of love and reverence of culture and climate of ages past in Arabia and the east. The book does not contain whole of the author's work but is a selection. The selection is of "most famous and representative " stories of Burton's work. The tales like "Alladin; the wonderful lamp", "Alibaba and forty thieves" , "Sinbad the seaman" etc has entered the popular imagination. You probably would have heard it during your childhood but in diluted for stripped from all literary elegance. Now, enter the faithful rendition (as the author claims) of the beloved tales while enjoying also their literary brilliance.

There is nothing to comment on the storyline. The book is excellently presented. The translation is bi old English, but nice to read. The book is beautifully bound - nice to hold. I simply love this book.

book is in good condition everything nice also carrying it makes me feel good ❤

OMG..just love it

The publishing and features of the book are beautiful, and undoubtedly Barnes and Noble need to be praised for providing people with such beautiful books. The cover and illustrations are truly charming, but my disappointment is with Richard Burton’s translation itself. The translation does do the task of mechanically narrating chains of certain events, but fails to convey any sense of deeper emotion and wonder. Burton really could not present the wonderment that ought to be existent with such spectacular stories. These tales are for everybody, children and grown-ups, but he has made them such that children can't read them. Even most adults would find them unsettling. His improper little additions and descriptions has made the tales look salacious, which they in reality are not. Burton’s personal fixations and fetishes seem to have found their way into his translation. It is undeniable that that he has unnecessarily ‘sexualized’ the stories, and while reading you can just feel them to be contaminated.

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.

Edizione da collezione, arrivata incellophanata. Ottime condizioni.

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Barnes & Noble, really nailed it. This book is seriously worth buying. The intricate embossed designs on the hardcover and inside amongst the pages, are simply mind-blowing. It definitely brings book-reading and book-appreciation to a whole new level. Especially, if the book is on those classics and legends.

Bardzo ładnie wydana książka, ładny papier, czcionka przyjemna w czytaniu, średniej wielkości. Nie ma ilustracji, język jest archaiczny. Książka to oryginalny tekst (pełnej długości zawartych w niej opowiadań), wydany w postaci "streszczonej" po polsku jako "Księga tysiąca jednej nocy - Wybór" W. Kubiaka. Jeżeli ktoś woli papierowe "pełne" wydanie niż tekst elektroniczny (public domain) zdecydowanie polecam.