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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Many thanks Doitsu. The Lyons sounds very good all round.
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I agree. I think that Dotsu's very informed and enjoyable posts make it clear that it will be worth getting the Lyons version.
As to the
101 Nights, the edition I mentioned is quite new and the first time it has been translated into English. The sample I downloaded gives the excellent introduction by Robert Irwin and a great deal of the opening section by the editor--but no tales.
It might be worth thinking about as a future purchase.
UPDATE
Evidently the high price and large file size of this edition is because it is the scholarly version which includes pages of the original Arabic as well as the translation! I suspect that later on a pb will be available as an ebook that will be cheaper and will not include the original MS.
In the meantime, some might be interested in Lyons's book
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange. which "is probably the oldest surviving story collection with material in common with the
Nights." There is another of those great introductions by Robert Irwin which are filled with interesting observations.
Finally, when this became our choice for the month I had no suspicion that I was once again going to be so completely hypnotised by this amazing collection.
