The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and

The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal, Illustrated Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

Various characters from this epic have themselves become cultural icons in Western culture, such as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. Part of its popularity may have sprung from the increasing historical and geographical knowledge, so that places of which little was known and so marvels were plausible had to be set further "long ago" or farther "far away"; this is a process that continues, and finally culminate in the fantasy world having little connection, if any, to actual times and places. Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc. When L. Frank Baum proposed writing a modern fairy tale that banished stereotypical elements, he included the genie as well as the dwarf and the fairy as stereotypes to go.

The influence of the versions of The Nights on world literature is immense. Writers as diverse as Henry Fielding to Naguib Mahfouz have alluded to the collection by name in their own works. Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, GÃ©rard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.
Country USA
Author Sir Richard F. Burton
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
PublicationDate 2014-02-27
ReleaseDate 2014-02-27

Country	USA
Author	Sir Richard F. Burton
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
PublicationDate	2014-02-27
ReleaseDate	2014-02-27

The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal, Illustrated Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

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