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From BBC Radio 4 - Drama:
The immortal stories of The Arabian Nights are brought to life in an inventive new adaptation by Glen Neath, reviving favourites such as Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves and The Fisherman and The Demon along with lesser known tales.
This is a world of wonder, magic and comedy - but also of contemporary realism. Successive generations in the east and the west have reinterpreted these tales, recognising the inept rulers, the resourceful slaves and the wondrous magicians. That ...more
The immortal stories of The Arabian Nights are brought to life in an inventive new adaptation by Glen Neath, reviving favourites such as Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves and The Fisherman and The Demon along with lesser known tales.
This is a world of wonder, magic and comedy - but also of contemporary realism. Successive generations in the east and the west have reinterpreted these tales, recognising the inept rulers, the resourceful slaves and the wondrous magicians. That ...more
I picked up a huge volume of stories from the Arabian Nights when I was quite young. I didn't read all of them because it was incredibly thick and dusty book so at that point I had no patience yet for all of them but I really liked the exotic tales of sultans, wizards and brave adventurers. Now I own the new edition of the three 1930s Finnish volumes with beautiful illustrations and along with Grimm's Fairy Tales I'll always cherish it.
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Our family's edition was on a regular rotation in my reading life as a child. I loved the episodic stories, but mostly I loved the frame story of the brave, clever and wise Scheherazade. I look forward to reading this and other editions.
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