About this title: The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN-13:9780895773746ISBN:0895773740
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN-13:9780895773746ISBN:0895773740
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780895773746ISBN:0895773740
Description: Acceptable. NO DUST JACKET. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781853261145ISBN:1853261149
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Wordsworth Classics. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781853261145ISBN:1853261149
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Wordsworth Classics. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Date Published: 1991
Description: Good. 1945 Walter J> Blacj, Classics Club Edition. Good clean book. No names, highliting or markings. No DJ. A little cover wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Description: Very Good. B000IYFUIK slight cover wear otherwise excellent condition, Classics Book Club Edition ** INTL BUYER-additional postage may be required. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reader's Digest Assn Inc, Pleasantville, NY, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780895773746ISBN:0895773740
Description: As New. No Jacket, as Issued. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches Tall. Hardcover in decorated boards. Book is clean, very tight binding and bright pages. Blue and maroon cover with maroon binding and gilt lettering. In like new condition, except for 2 pages who's bottom corners are creased. Appears unread. read more
"I played the orchestral work Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov my senior year of college. The music is so amazing and will always mean something special to me. I love how it is composed based on the tales Scheherazade tells to the Sultan in order to save her life. The collection of tales are definitely "tales" - filled with strange and bizarre things not plausible, but the stories are full of adventure and wonder. Some of the most famous stories are known by many including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Aladdin."
"I don't know if this is the precise translation I read, since I downloaded it onto my iPhone, but oh well. This was an interesting exercise in catching up on my cultural literacy. Yes, I thought, I know the basic story of Aladdin, but do I know the real story? Or that of Sinbad the Sailor? Now I can say I do--though the details are a bit hazy even now, given the sheer number of plot twists contained in the myriad tales. There is a lot of magic in these stories, along with plenty about the art of making money (or treasure finding) and the responsibilities of the rich (who often like to masquerade as poor people, if the stories are read literally). It was sort of interesting to see the way they're constructed as stories within stories within stories. But so often I found myself wondering, what's the point of this? They're mostly just to entertain, though a few moral lessons poke themselves through the plot. Chief among these are the lessons to avoid being greedy and overly curious, which you learn as you see people disregard that counsel and do the opposite. At the same time, there is a lot of value placed on being a clever merchant/trader, on wits in general, and on traveling far and wide. Do I regret reading these? No, I don't think so. Would I read them to my kids? Probably not, unless it was a kid-friendly retelling, in some cases. Would I read them again? No. Mixed feelings. My two stars are pretty accurate: The Arabian Nights are not as hot as I thought they might be."
"I'm not sure if this is the exact version that I read or not, I think there are many. This is a valuable book to read but the morals are sparse and the characters generally undeserving. I would have given this book three stars but by the time I got to the last story I was fed up with the kings' views on women and their inability to find anything worthy besides a woman's beauty. I know, these stories are old. But still truth is truth. I'm glad the Queen kept her life through telling these tales, and from the sound of it the king was just about on par with the tales! Humph!"
"I basically grew up on this book...Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is my favorite story from here. The most amazing thing, however, is the story behind how these stories were created. According to legend, Shahrayar was an Arabian king whose faith in women ended when he caught his wife cheating on him. After her execution, he began his new practice of marrying a woman, sleeping with her, and then beheading her in the morning. Eventually, Shahrazad, the Vizier's daughter, offered herself as his next wife--she had a plan to end the killings. Each night, she would begin telling an amazing story, and would promise to finish it the next night. This continued for one thousand and one nights, at the end of which Shahrayar kept her as his wife, having faith and trust in the woman he had grown to love."
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