A Selection Of Stories From Alif Laila Wa Laila

Author : Edward E. Hale
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ISBN 13 : 9781331846154
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights written by Edward E. Hale and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Arabian Nights: A Selection of Stories From Alif Laila Wa Laila, the Arabian Nights' Entertainment The Arabian Nights' Entertainments is a book which has been the delight of Europe and America for nearly two hundred years. Before that time, it had been the delight of Western Asia, and of the Mohammedan colonies in Europe and Northern Africa, it would be hard to say for how many centuries more. Since the Frenchman, Galland, first introduced it to readers of his own country, translations of it have been made into every language of Europe. In the English language, there have been, many translations from the original text. The interest in the text has increased in the East, and new manuscripts have been found, and different editions printed from them at Cairo and Calcutta. The literature of the subject is now an important department of literary criticism. For our readers, young or old, it is perhaps enough to say, that the stories are as popular in the East as they have ever been in their translated forms, and that, at this moment, they may be heard recited wherever a considerable company of Arabs, Turks, or of other Eastern races come together. Nor is the interest which attaches to them in the East or the West difficult to account for. The stories are pure narrative, - narrative without any moral, without any object but that of amusing or pleasing the reader. There is not the slightest pretence that they are instructive, nor that they will lead in particular paths of virtue, nor that they illustrate great or small principles of life or of society. They are simply stories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.