THE TALE OF KING SHAHRIYAR AND HIS BROTHER, SHAHZAMAN The Tale of King Yunan and Duban the Doctor The Fable of the Donkey, the Ox, and the Farmer Prologue: The Tale of King Shahriyar and His Brother, Shahzaman Dawood, 1978Įxcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser This translation first published in the USA by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England ‘Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp’ follows Zottenberg’s text (Paris, 1888). This version follows Macnaghten’s Calcutta edition of The Thousand and One Nights (1839–42) but the first Bulaq edition (1835) has also been consulted wherever the Macnaghten text appeared faulty.
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER AND OTHER CLASSIC STORIES IN VERSEĪladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian NightsĮngravings on wood from original designs by THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD TALES OF GREEK HEROES The illustrations are from the famous original engravings on wood made by William Harvey in 1839.ĪLICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Mr Dawood has also translated numerous technical works into Arabic, written and spoken radio and film commentaries, and contributed to specialized English–Arabic dictionaries. He translated The Koran and an unexpurgated collection of Tales from the Thousand and One Nights and edited and abridged The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun. In 1959 he founded the Arabic Advertising and Publishing Company, London, which is now one of the major centres for Arabic typesetting outside the Middle East. DA WOOD went to England as an Iraq State Scholar in 1945 and graduated from London University.
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In this edition they are presented in a way that is straightforward but not over-simplified, so that they are as fresh and as vivid as they were when first told over a thousand years ago.īorn in Baghdad, N. The stories, which originate from Persia, India and Arabia, were the daily entertainment of ordinary people. There have been many different versions in print, pantomime and on film, but here they are retold directly from the authentic Arabic sources.Ĭollected together in this edition are some of the best-known stories, such as Aladdin and The Ebony Horse, as well as the lesser-known Khalifah the Fisherman and The Dream. The Tales from the Arabian Nights (also known as The Thousand and One Nights) have been popular in the West ever since they were first introduced at the beginning of the eighteenth century. ALADDIN AND OTHER TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS