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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 ...
Scherazard Harvey of the Trails series is named after Scherazard of One Thousand and One Nights and dressed in an Arabian-style outfit. "Scheherazade" is a program card available to the Hacker players in Android: Netrunner. The art is inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and the flavour text makes reference to the number as well.
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)
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 ...
Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين, ʿalāʾ ad-dīn) is one of the most famous characters from 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 ...
One Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. One Thousand and One Nights or 1001 Nights may also refer to: