Arabian Nght Nce Pa
ISBN: 9780393928082 | 039392808X
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 12/17/2009
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This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.
| Preface | |
| A Note on the Text | |
| The Text of The Arabian Nights | |
| Foreword | |
| Prologue | |
| [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter] | |
| [The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey] | |
| [The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife] | |
| [The Story of the Merchant and the Demon] | |
| [The First Old Man's Tale] | ... MORE |
| [The Second Old Man's Tale] | |
| [The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban] | |
| [The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot] | |
| [The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul] | |
| [The Tale of the Enchanted King] | |
| [The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies] | |
| [The First Dervish's Tale] | |
| [The Second Dervish's Tale] | |
| [The Tale of the Envious and the Envied] | |
| [The Third Dervish's Tale] | |
| [The Tale of the First Lady, the Mistress of the House] | |
| [The Tale of the Second Lady, the Flogged One] | |
| [The Story of the Three Apples] | |
| [The Story of the Two Viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Misri and Bar al-Din Hasan al-Basri] | |
| [The Story of the Hunchback] | |
| [The Christian Broker's Tale: The Young Man with the Severed Hand and the Girl] | |
| [The Steward's Tale: The Young Man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's Maid] | |
| [The Tailor's Tale: The Lame Young Man from Baghdad and the Barber] | |
| [The Tale of the Second Brother, Baqbaqa the Paraplegic] | |
| [The Tale of the Fifth Brother, the Cropped of Ears] | |
| [The Story of Jullanar of the Sea] | |
| [The Story of Sindbad the Sailor] | |
| Contexts | |
| Early Witnesses | |
| Anonymous • A Ninth-Century Fragment of the Thousand Nights | |
| Meadows of Gold (Muruj al-Dhahab) | |
| The Fihrist | |
| Modern Echoes | |
| The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade | |
| From Remembrance of Things Past | |
| From The Dreams of Scheherazade | |
| Criticism | |
| A Thousand and One Nights | |
| The Origins of The Arabian Nights | |
| The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights | |
| The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture | |
| From The Art of Story-Telling | |
| Narrative Men | |
| A Comic Romance from The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers | |
| Neglected Conclusions of The Arabian Nights | |
| Madness and Cure in the 1001 Nights | |
| The Eye and the Needle | |
| Story-Telling Techniques in The Arabian Nights | |
| The Arabian Nights: A Chronology | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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