品牌：Burton
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：320 页码
·出版日：1997年
·ISBN：0140622683
·条码：9780140622683
·版次：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·丛书名：Penguin Popular Classics
内容简介
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance,The Arabian Nightshas enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.
This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介
A. S. Byatt is the author ofThe Biographer's Tale,Elementals, and the Booker Prize winning novelPossession, among other books. She lives in London.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
编辑推荐
From AudioFile
The romantic strains of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade introduce and end each segment of this lush, nineteenth-century translation. The exotic music is seamlessly married to Burton's erotic adventures and Madoc's mellifluous voice. Though Madoc's theatrical training is obvious, his renderings are never stagy. He reads with dash and elan but doesn't turn this into a performance by adopting accents. Madoc allows the literature to speak for itself, occasionally underscoring a passage with the seduction of sibilant speech or the slight swell of anger. Please note that Burton's tales, filled with violence and sexuality, are meant for adult ears. R.O.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"[A] book...that captivates in childhood, and still delights in age."
From the Trade Paperback edition.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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