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aka Greensleeves
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(12/1/05 3:24 pm)
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Arabian Nights
I'm looking for a really great edition of
The Thousand and One Arabian Nights
(kind of along the lines of Robert Fagels's translation of
The Odyssey
). Anyone have recommendations?
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midori snyder
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(12/1/05 8:22 pm)
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Re: Arabian Nights
Hussein Haddawy's Modern Library Translation. It comes in two volumes, the first volume is in a very affordable paperback with an excellent introduction on the history of the texts and the history of its various translations.
Haddawy's translation are very readable and culturally astute.
Have a look at a wonderful article Gregory Frost wrote about the Arabian Nights
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princessterribel
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(12/3/05 10:25 am)
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Re: Arabian Nights
Is Haddawy's translation illustrated?
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midori
snyder
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(12/3/05 12:30 pm)
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Re: Arabian Nights
No illustrations...just the stories. (with some scholarly footnotes here and there)
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aka Greensleeves
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(12/4/05 12:12 pm)
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Re: Arabian Nights
Thanks--that was the version I've been eyeing.... ;)
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