The Arabian Nights in Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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The Arabian Nights

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Start date: March 15, 2012

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Feb 11, 2007 Francisco rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: clasicos, relatos, oriental

Selecci贸n de la colecci贸n Calleja de algunos cuentos de Las mil y una noches, modificados para un p煤blico infantil. No son sino un p谩lido reflejo del original.

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Dec 29, 2008 Suvi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, _favorites, 1600s-and-back, fantasy, _middle-east

I picked up a huge volume of stories from the Arabian Nights when I was quite young. I didn't read all of them because it was incredibly thick and dusty book so at that point I had no patience yet for all of them but I really liked the exotic tales of sultans, wizards and brave adventurers. Now I own the new edition of the three 1930s Finnish volumes with beautiful illustrations and along with Grimm's Fairy Tales I'll always cherish it. ...more

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May 02, 2008 Anna rated it really liked it

Arabian fairy tales on thieves, adventures, sailors, romances and many many more. Great book, but not all tales are for kids.

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Apr 01, 2010 Maryanne added it

Shelves: gaveupon, research-for-plays

Who am I kidding - I'll never finish this one. Isn't that the point? But yeah - interesting stories but more interesting is how ridiculous Richard Burton is in his introduction (he's basically an Orientalist decrying every other translator of Arabian Nights as more of an Orientalist than he is) ...more

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Sep 08, 2009 Erin (NY) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2009, books-i-own, nest-09-fbc, classics, translation

I found this book incredibly hard to read! It took me FOREVER to get through, just because I kept falling asleep every 10 pages or so. I skipped a lot of parts, and I highly doubt I will ever go back to re-read....

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