The Arabian Nights or Tales Told by Sheherezade During a Thousand Nights and One Night

Title

en_US The Arabian Nights or Tales Told by Sheherezade During a Thousand Nights and One Night

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Retold by Brian Alderson

Creator

en_US Alderson, Brian

Contributor

en_US Foreman, Michael

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:17Z

en_US 2011-07

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Victor Gollancz Ltd. First published in the USA in 1995 by Morrow junior Books. This is the first time I have heard some of the tales included in The Arabian Nights classified as fables. Because that collection of tales is so loose, it is not surprising. I am surprised at the three good fables I read here! The Fable of the Birds and the Beasts and the Carpenter (43) tells of a lion who is gathering anti-human forces -- all those somehow dominated by the sons of Adam -- and finally meets an old man with some boards on his shoulder. The man claims that he is a carpenter on his way to make a house for a high-ranking official. The lion immediately demands that the carpenter make a house for him. The carpenter does, invites him in, and promptly nails a roof on, making this house into a prison box. The lion's anti-human allies scatter for fear of this son of Adam. The Fable of the Wolf and the Fox (48) has the pair going through several phases. The last phase is the story usually associated in Aesopic circles with a goat and a fox. The fox leaps out of a pit over the wolf -- and then alerts people working the vineyard that a wolf has fallen into their trap-pit. He himself goes off and eats grapes! The Fable of the Mongoose and the Mouse (51) has a clever mongoose first stealing sesame seeds, then replacing some to get into the good graces of the victim housewife, and then alerting a mouse to the treasure of sesame seeds he could supposedly reap. In the end, the housewife catches the mouse and cares for the mongoose, who needs to share with no one.

Identifier

en_US 9780688142193

en_US 7522 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82788

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Books of Wonder: Morrow Junior Books

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.A36 Ar 1995

en_US 1001 Nights

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole