One Thousand and One Nights

Author: Zhi Pu-Hao
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: One Thousand and One Nights is the highest achievement of Arabic literature, an encyclopedia of ancient Arab social life, and one of the most vibrant, most celebrated, best-read, and most influential works in the world. It is an outstanding representative of folk literature reaching the pinnacle of world literature and a perfect crystallization of human wisdom and emotion. One Thousand and One Nights has had a profound influence on later literature, becoming the creative source for works such as Boccaccio's Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Montesquieu's Letters from a Persian, and Jules Verne's science fiction novels. It was included in the "100 World Classics" list recommended by the American Library Association. It was also selected by 14 professors, including Ji Xianlin, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in their 1986 Bibliography of Chinese and Foreign Literature as a recommended reading list for Chinese and foreign literature.