One Thousand and One Nights (8 Volumes)

Author: Li Weizhong
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Publishing Date: 2006-04-01
Features: ★16-inch paperback, published by Ningxia People's Publishing House in January 2006, 1st printing of "One Thousand and One Nights" (Alflaylawalayla, also translated as "Arabian Nights"), a complete translation based on the 1835 Cairo edition of the Arabic original "Bulak Edition." Simplified Chinese, full illustrations, free verse. It contains over a thousand stories, over a thousand poems, and over a hundred illustrations, making it one of the most significant works in ancient India and China in over a century. The king of the Sasanian kingdom, Shahryar, hated all women after his queen was killed for constantly having affairs with others. From then on, he married a young girl every day and killed her the next morning. To save herself and other innocent women, the daughter of the prime minister, Scheherazade, devised a clever plan to marry the king. She and her sister Duyazade worked in perfect harmony, telling stories every night, with escalating excitement but never finishing them—folktales, myths, legends, legends, fables, anecdotes, love stories, maritime adventures, court anecdotes, anecdotes of famous people, and adventures in foreign lands—all woven into the stories. Characters and celestial spirits, kings and ministers, wealthy merchants, common people, and all walks of life are intertwined in a chain reaction. The stories are so captivating that the Sasanian king, eager to hear the ending, delayed the execution of Scheherazade by 1,001 nights. In the end, it was universally recognized that "One Thousand and One Nights" has an "eternal charm," and it has had a broad and direct or indirect influence on world literature and art, such as "The Divine Comedy," "The Decameron," "The Canterbury Tales," "Don Quixote," and European music and painting.