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, 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, and Jules Verne's science fiction novels. It was included in the "100 World Classics" recommended by the American Guide to Good Reading. It was also listed in the "Reading List of Chinese and Foreign Literature" recommended by 14 professors, including Ji Xianlin, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in 1986's Catalogue of Chinese and Foreign Literary Works.