The Arabian Nights, Volume I: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights: 1 (Signet Classics)
Language: English
Pages: 592
ISBN: B00NUMIP66
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Enjoy the timeless tales of Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more in this first volume of The Arabian Nights.
Upon learning of his queen’s infidelity, proud King Shahryar has her killed. As revenge on womankind, he decides to wed a different virgin every night, only to have her beheaded at dawn. Such is Shahryar’s practice for three terrible years—until he weds Scheherazade, the maiden who will change his life....
A breathtaking beauty, Scheherazade is as learned as she is sensuous. Her first night with the king, she uses her imagination, her eloquence, and more than a little cunning to regale him with a tale of genies and wishes, wisely cutting the story short at dawn. The king is so beguiled, he cannot have her murdered without hearing the story’s end. From then on, Scheherazade spends nights conjuring stories of flying carpets and fantastical journeys, always stopping with a cliff-hanger—and saving her own life.
This edition follows the unexpurgated translation of Richard F. Burton, the renowned Victorian explorer. Intricate and inventive, these stories within stories continue to captivate readers as they have for centuries.
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favor.” So Hasan shut himself up in his chamber and composed a remarkable poem. When he had finished transcribing the lines, he had one of his uncle’s slaves carry them to the sultan, who read the poem and was very pleased by it. In fact, he read the ode to all those present, and they praised it with the highest praise. Thereupon, the sultan sent for the writer, and when Hasan entered his sitting chamber, he said, “From this day on you will be my boon companion, and I’m granting you a monthly
“Master, I want to tell you something that will make your soul rejoice and enable me to be the bearer of good tidings.” “I’m listening,” I said. “I have a daughter,” he began, “and she learned magic in her childhood from an old woman who lived with us. Yesterday, when you gave me the calf, I went into the house with it, and she looked at it and veiled her face. Then she kept laughing and weeping and at last said to me, ‘Oh Father, has my honor become so cheap that you’re now bringing
headed for it, and as I drew near, it grew larger and brighter, and I was sure that it was a crevice in the rock leading to open country. “There must be some reason for this opening,” I said to myself. “Either it’s the mouth of a second pit like the one through which they let me down, or else it’s a natural crack in the rocks.” As I approached the light, I kept wondering what it might be, and fortunately it turned out to come from a breach in the back side of the mountain that the wild beasts
being rubbed and said to him, “My lord, if you require anything, command me, and it will be done immediately.” “Go and return the bride and bridegroom to their apartment,” said Aladdin. So the slave carried out his order in the twinkle of an eye and carried the pair in their bed to the palace without their being able to see who was transporting them. Both were terribly frightened, and the marid had barely time to set them down again and disappear when the sultan came to visit and
was approaching and stopped telling her story. When the next night arrived, however, she received the king’s permission to continue her tale and said, Informed that Aladdin was approaching, the sultan got up to receive him, and he embraced and kissed him as though he were his own son. After seating him on his right side, he blessed him and prayed for him, as did the viziers, emirs, and grandees of the realm. Soon the king commanded the attendants to serve the morning meal, and all the nobles
