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iSBN 978-0-14-119166-9 $18.00 (NCR)
Literature 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 528 pp. Rights: N00
Pub history: Penguin Classics hc 978-0-14-119165-2
On sale: 6/26/2012
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The Arabian Nights: Volume 1 978-0-14-044938-9 $20.00
The Arabian Nights: Volume 2 978-0-14-044939-6 $20.00
The Arabian Nights: Volume 3 978-0-14-044940-2 $20.00
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MAlColM C. lyons is a professor of Arabic at Cambridge
and a widely published scholar of classical Arabic literature.
uRsulA lyons is an emerita fellow of Lucy Cavendish College,
Cambridge, and a specialist in modern Arabic literature.
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Now in paperback: the best-loved tales
from the acclaimed new translation
Tales from 1,001 Nights
Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Other Favorites
Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons
Introduction and Notes by Robert Irwin
This is the essential one-volume edition of The Arabian Nights,
abridged from the celebrated new three-volume translation.
Included are the timeless and unforgettable stories of Aladdin, Ali
Baba and the forty thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, and many others, in
a handy companion to the landmark translation described as “the
most ambitious and thorough” by The Guardian (London).
Praise for the full Lyons translation of The Arabian Nights:
“ The Arabian Nights is not a book to be read in a week. It is
an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And
this new Penguin edition is the one to
have.” —The Sunday Times (London)
RoBeRt iRwin is the author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion,
as well as numerous other studies of Middle Eastern politics, art,
and mysticism.