![]() ![]() This is the most comprehensive collection of the stories to date freshly gathered and translated from Arabic and French sources, this makes a glorious collectors' edition. These magnificent volumes are the most ambitious and thorough translation into English of the Arabian Nights since the age of Queen Victoria and the British Empire. But even more importantly, they stand like fabulous cities against the encroachments of the dark * Standpoint * ![]() The tales satisfy imaginations famished for wonder. Settle back, pour a glass of wine and sail away with Sinbad to the Island of Serendib - Christopher Hart * The Sunday Times * ![]() And this new Penguin edition is the one to have. The Arabian Nightmare was first published in November 1983. His novels include The Limits of Vision, The Arabian Nightmare The Mysteries of Algiers and Satan Wants Me. It is a dream without awakening, a flight without escape, a tale without end. Robert Irwin is the author of For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages, The Arabian Nights: A Companion and numerous other specialised studies of Middle Eastern politics, art and mysticism. It is an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. A disease that seizes the mind, the Arabian Nightmare pervades the darkness of medieval Cairo. Penguin has produced this magnificent, unexpurgated edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world.The Arabian Nights is not a book to be read in a week. ![]()
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