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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anonymous
- 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 Anonymous is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales that likely originated during the late medieval period, blending stories that span centuries and cultures. These enchanting tales revolve around the clever and resourceful Schehera-zade, who tells captivating stories to the Sultan Schah-riar each night to delay her execution, exploring themes of love, betrayal, and revenge through a tapestry of fantastic adventures. The opening of this classic work introduces the background of Schehera-zade and her well-meaning yet tragic venture as a new bride to the vengeful Sultan. To reclaim her life and the lives of many innocent women, she devises a plan to tell stories that capture the Sultan's intrigue, beginning with the tale of her husband's brother, King Schah-zenan, and his turmoil over his wife's betrayal. This sets the stage for a rich narrative filled with unexpected twists and moral lessons, as well as a powerful commentary on female agency and wisdom in the face of adversity. The book begins to unfurl the layers of intrigue with the promise of fantastical storytelling yet to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Contents:
- The sultan and his vow
- The story of the merchant and the genie
- The three calenders, sons of kings, and the five ladies of Bagdad
- The story of the three sisters
- The story of Aladdin; or, the wonderful lamp
- The history of Ali Baba, and of the forty robbers killed by one slave
- The story of Sinbad the sailor.
- Credits:
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
- Notes:
- Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
- Reading ease score: 70.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
- Release date is 2006-11-18
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