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The Arabian Nights and Its 2021 Translation Part 2
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 James Joyce and A.S. Byatt. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the woman poet and translator Yasmine Seale co-present a new selection of tales, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism into the twenty-first century. You are listening to the second half of the Arabian Nights and its 2021 translation.
Recommended Reading:
The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (2021)
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights”
—“One Thousand and One Nights”
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