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A magnificent and richly illustrated volume?with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images―of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights , the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has

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Author

Paulo Lemos Horta, Yasmine Seale, Robert Irwin, Omar El Akkad

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631493638

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics

Rating

4.8 / 5 (239 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14