The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton
(3,625 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the tenth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. (10 hr 42 min)
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good stories. end of book. explanation given, hard to follow
prettypunxx
(3,5 Sterne)
I've spent months getting through all 10 volumes. I don't know what I expected when I started listening, but it wasn't this. I appreciate all involved for giving us this material in is entirety. The readers delivered every word dutifully. the content can be shocking at the best of times. But it is a subjects of history. even though we find it abhorrent now. The author obviously respected the collection and didn't seem to want anything left out. He goes, in this last volume, to explain about the history. Trying to get a simple answer about the origins of "the nights" is not possible. I would have been happier with more info on the go, instead of all at once. Sadly it was impossible to follow what he was even saying. When I was clear on what he was explaining it was interesting. The stories were just crazy. I never heard many like them. They often don't go how you expect and when you finally get a read on them, you get one that just keeps you wondering where they were going with it . I didn't