{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393928082","title":"The Arabian Nights: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary work of relatively recent date--the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Contexts\" presents three of the oldest witnesses to \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas'udi's Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim's \u003cem\u003eThe Fihrist\u003c\/em\u003e. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Criticism\" collects eleven wide-ranging essays on \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e' central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Chronology of \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e and a Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaddawy, Husain:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eHusain Haddawy\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeller-Roazen, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation\u003c\/em\u003e, awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies in 2008; \u003cem\u003eEcholalias: On the Forgetting of Language\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eFortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency\u003c\/em\u003e. He has published articles on classical, medieval, and modern literature and philosophy and has edited, translated, and introduced Giorgio Agamben's \u003cem\u003ePotentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e. Heller-Roazen's books have been translated into many languages.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844435644690,"sku":"9780393928082","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f58cc47-4cd8-40c4-8f8f-a91b63d4983e.jpg?v=1737320477","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-arabian-nights-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393928082","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}