{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights-9780393928082","title":"The Arabian Nights","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew works of literature are as familiar and beloved as \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e in the Arabic tradition includes \"Contexts\", presenting three of the oldest witnesses to the collection, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas'udi's \u003cem\u003eMuruj al-Dhahab\u003c\/em\u003e, and Ibn al-Nadim's \u003cem\u003eThe Fihrist\u003c\/em\u003e. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Criticism\" collects eleven wide-ranging essays on \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e' central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Chronology of \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e and a Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853308711148,"sku":"9780393928082","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6361703482328.jpg?v=1759196304","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-arabian-nights-9780393928082","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}