A History of Kidderminster: With Short Accounts of Some Neighbouring Parishes, Burton John Richard

Автор: Burton Sir Richard F.
Название: Arabian Nights
ISBN: 1435156234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781435156234
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Описание: This collection features more than twenty stories, in the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton, published between 1884 and 1886, and full-colour illustrations by Renata Fucikova and Jindra Capek. Among them are some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling, including the "Sinbad the Sailor" and "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp" .

Автор: Burton, Richard
Название: The Arabian Nights
ISBN: 0375756752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375756757
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.

Автор: Burton Sir Richard F.
Название: Vikram and the Vampire
ISBN: 0368446654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780368446658
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Цена: 7350.00 T
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Описание: The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, Boccacio's "Decamerone," the "Pentamerone," and all that class of facetious fictitious literature. The story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his promise to a Jogi or Magician, brings to him the Baital (Vampire), who is hanging on a tree. The difficulties King Vikram and his son have in bringing the Vampire into the presence of the Jogi are truly laughable; and on this thread is strung a series of Hindu fairy stories, which contain much interesting information on Indian customs and manners. It also alludes to that state, which induces Hindu devotees to allow themselves to be buried alive, and to appear dead for weeks or months, and then to return to life again; a curious state of mesmeric catalepsy, into which they work themselves by concentrating the mind and abstaining from food--a specimen of which I have given a practical illustration in the Life of Sir Richard Burton. The following translation is rendered peculiarly; valuable and interesting by Sir Richard Burton's intimate knowledge of the language. To all who understand the ways of the East, it is as witty, and as full of what is popularly called "chaff" as it is possible to be. There is not a dull page in it, and it will especially please those who delight in the weird and supernatural, the grotesque, and the wild life.

Автор: Francis Burton Sir Richard
Название: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol 1
ISBN: 1530358620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530358625
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Автор: trans. Burton Sir Richard
Название: Arabian Nights
ISBN: 190463396X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904633969
Издательство: Collectors Library
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Описание: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Sir Richard Burton. Unexpurgated edition.