The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- First Published: 1706
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction, Adventure, Folklore
- Subjects: Voyages, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Robbery or robbers, Storytelling, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Folklore, India or East Indian people, Sailing or sailors, China or Chinese people, Middle East, Genies or jinns, Persia, Arabs, Fables
- Locales: China, India, Arabia
The Work
The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (also known as A Thousand and One Nights) is a medieval collection of Middle Eastern folktales about heroic figures such as Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad whose luck and ingenuity carry them through perilous adventures. First collected in the fifteenth century, the stories found their way into Western culture in the early eighteenth century when they were translated into French. The first English edition followed a century later. Since then they have been retranslated and rewritten for both children and adults many...
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