Famous Translations -- One Thousand and One Nights (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Chi 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, celebrated, widely read, and 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 The 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 selected for the "100 World Classics" list recommended by the American Book of Good Reading. It was also included in the "Reading List of Chinese and Foreign Literature" recommended by 14 professors, including Ji Xianlin, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in their Catalogue of Chinese and Foreign Literary Works in 1986.