Routledge Revivals: Scheherezade (1953): Tales from the by A. J. Arberry

By A. J. Arberry

First released in 1953, this translation of a part of the Arabian Nights through A. J. Arberry bargains 4 recognized tales in glossy idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The creation presents a short research of previous translations of the stories and explains their price as signs of the society within which they have been written.


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