The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"The Arabian Nights Entertainments" by Andrew Lang is a collection of fairy tales and folk stories compiled during the late 19th century. This work serves as an English translation of the classic tales of "The Arabian Nights," showcasing a variety of enchanting narratives that often involve themes of adventure, love, and moral lessons. The opening chapters introduce significant characters such as Sultan Schahriar and his clever wife, Scheherazade, who narrates the stories to survive the Sultan's deadly decree against women. The opening of the book sets the stage for the intriguing framework of Scheherazade's storytelling as a means of saving her own life and the lives of other women. As she volunteers to marry Sultan Schahriar, who has been executing his brides each day, she devises a clever plan to postpone her fate. Each night, she captivates the Sultan's attention with an incomplete tale, leaving him curious for more. The first story she tells involves a merchant and a vengeful genius, unfolding into a sequence of stories that eventually weave into a larger narrative tapestry, each revealing the complexity of human nature and the whimsicality of fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

The story of the merchant and the genius

The story of the first old man and of the hind

The story of the second old man and of the two black dogs

The story of the fisherman

The story of the Greek king and the physician Douban

The story of the husband and the parrot

The story of the vizir who was punished

The story of the young king of the black isles

The story of the three Calenders, sons of kings, and of five ladies of Bagdad

The story of the first Calender, son of a king

The story of the second Calender, son of a king

The story of the envious man, and of him who was envied

The story of the third Calendar, son of a king

The seven voyages of Sindbad the sailor

The little hunchback

The story of the barber's fifth brother

The story of the barber's sixth brother

The adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura

Noureddin and the fair Persian

Aladdin and the wonderful lamp

The adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, caliph of Bagdad

Story of the blind Baba-Abdalla

The story of Sidi-Noumann

Story of Ali Cogia, merchant of Bagdad

The enchanted horse

The story of two sisters who were jealous of their younger sister.

Credits:

Produced by Christy Phillips and John Hamm. HTML version by Al Haines.

Notes:

Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 1994-05-01