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The Ebony Horse, The Enchanted Horse or The Magic Horse [1] [2] is a folk tale featured in the Arabian Nights.It features a flying mechanical horse, controlled using keys, that could fly into outer space and towards the Sun.
Illustration of One Thousand and One Nights by Sani ol molk, Iran, 1849–1856. Leitwortstil is "the purposeful repetition of words" in a given literary piece that "usually expresses a motif or theme important to the given story." This device occurs in the One Thousand and One Nights, which binds several tales in a story cycle. The storytellers ...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...
This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night—were published in 1885. His Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six volumes. Later pirate copies split the very large third ...
The oldest known text of the tale of Scheherazade is a ninth century (CE) Arabic manuscript from Cairo.Across the next five centuries, Scheherazade’s "witty, lively and dynamic" voice was taken up by storytellers across the cultivated urban centres of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and al-Andalus, with influences from multiple traditions, including Greek, Coptic, North African, and Hebrew.
Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين, ʿalāʾ ad-dīn) is one of the most famous characters in One Thousand and One Nights and appears in the famous tale of Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. Despite not being part of the original Arabic text of The Arabian Nights , the story of Aladdin is one of the best known tales associated with that ...
John Payne - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (unexpurgated) (1882–84) Edward Powys Mathers based on J. C. Mardrus in 4 volumes (1923) Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons - The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights published by Penguin Books based on the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) in 10 volumes (2008)
A drawing of Joseph Charles Mardrus. Joseph Charles Mardrus, otherwise known as "Jean-Charles Mardrus" (1868–1949), was a French physician, poet, and a noted translator.. Today he is best known for his translation of the Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, which was published from 1898 to 1904, [1] and was in turn rendered into English by Edward Powys Mathe