{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights","title":"The Arabian Nights","description":"Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary work of relatively recent date--the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Contexts\" presents three of the oldest witnesses to \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas'udi's Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim's \u003cem\u003eThe Fihrist\u003c\/em\u003e. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Criticism\" collects eleven wide-ranging essays on \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e' central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Chronology of \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e and a Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836027678925,"sku":"9780393928082","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_6e8a1d76-5845-41cd-8c7d-223a0b8de69d.jpg?v=1790991828","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-arabian-nights","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}