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Starting in 1999 with the publication of The Definitive Annotated Alice, the Norton and Liveright annotated books have become the leading series of classic, illustrated works in the English language. The long-anticipated publication of The Annotated Arabian Nights extends this tradition with a strikingly modern translation-the first of Shahrazad's tales…
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This is a fine new translation by Yasmine Seale of the classic tales in Alf Layla wa Layla: One Thousand Nights and One. This is a beautiful book to hold and read. Fabulously illustrated too. The stories are of wonder and astonishing things. We hear of the storytellers, of Sheherazade who saves the city by telling stories that keep the cruel king wanting more from the next night's telling. We hear of stories inside stories.
What Sheherazade's been doing is this. Stories begin with the appearance of destiny. This thing will happen. It’s fate, it’s inevitable. But in the…
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