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Arabian Nights

or, The book of a thousand nights and a night

by Scheherazade

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: Arabic, English
  • Content type: Fiction

Description

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It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was a Fisherman well stricken in years who had a wife and three children, and withal was of poor condition. The collection of stories known as the Thousand and One Nights is in itself a symbol for infinity. Verily the works and words of those gone before us have become instances and examples to men of our modern day, that folk may view what admonishing chances befel other folk and may therefrom take warning; and that they may peruse the annals of antique peoples and all that hath betided them, and be thereby ruled and restrained:-Praise, therefore, be to Him who hath made the histories of the Past an admonition unto the Present!

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Folk literature”. Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folk literature” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Folk literature”· via Open Library
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject
    • “Folk literature”· in subject
    • “Folklore”· in subject
    • “Tales”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 19 editions; 2 cataloged here.

The Arabian nights

1990NortonEnglish
  • 9780393959062
  • 0393959066
Borrowable

The Arabian nights' entertainments

1932The Modern libraryEnglish—Borrowable

Subjects

24 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 19 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 8 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL15158874W
Edition coverage
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