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Further translations of some of the most popular stories from "The Arabian Nights." Haddawy's first volume has been recognized as the finest translation into English ever done of this classic.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Haddaway's latest 'Arabian Nights' is a worthy successor to the first volume -- lucid, fluent, both scholarly and passionate."
Paul Theroux
"Husain Haddawy's 'The Arabian Nights II: Sinbad and Other Popular Stories' will delight the many readers who loved his compelling translation of the original 'Arabian Nights.' His versions of such charismatic classics as 'Sinbad the Sailor' and 'Ali Baba and the forty theives' are crisp, vivid, and utterly enthralling, illuminating the many wonders that have been concealed for too long by less faithful editions."
Sandra Gilbert
"It is a great pleasure to read these classic stories in Haddawy's vigorous and swift-moving prose, in which we find neither the discreet omissions nor the flamboyant elaborations of earlier translators of 'The Arabian Nights.'
M. H. Abrams
"With fidelity to scholarship and purity of vernacular English, as in his translation of the earliest reliable manuscript of 'The Arabian Nights,' Haddawy has now made delightfully available the endlessly popular later tales of Sinbad, 'Ali Baba, and Aladin, as well as the early Qamar al-Zaman tales with their inserted pungent verses of yearning and fulfillment. Old pleasures, new delights."
Carl Woodring
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