{"product_id":"a-hundred-and-one-nights-hardback-9780814745199","title":"A Hundred and One Nights (Hardback) 9780814745199","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Hundred and One Nights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBruce Fudge (Edited and translated by), Robert Irwin (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814745199\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 September 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.2 cm, 0.816 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[T]his is an enjoyable collection, with a good variety of stories (and presentation).\" (Complete Review) \"Bruce Fudges erudite translation . . . is a major contribution to the field and promises to intrigue and beguile the general reader as well as to become indispensable to literary scholars.\" (Times Literary Supplement) \"Reading Fudge's translation of \u003ci\u003eA Hundred and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e is a joy.\" (Public Books) \"[A]ccessibility is central to Fudge's translation of \u003ci\u003eA Hundred and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e into English as well as his new edition of the original Arabic text.\" (The National) \"This volume offers many pleasures and presents many wonderful stories that would otherwise have been lost to most readers.\" - Journal of the American Oriental Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFantastic tales of magic and wonder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edited and translated into English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eA Hundred and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier's daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. \u003ci\u003eA Hundred and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.\u003cbr\u003e Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, \u003ci\u003eA Hundred and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of\u003ci\u003e A Hundred and One Nights \u003c\/i\u003epromises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.\u003cbr\u003e A bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702425448728,"sku":"9780814745199","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-hundred-and-one-nights-hardback-9780814745199","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}