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I do enjoy myths and fairy tales, and reading about them. I love Marina Warner's books. I think it's fair enough that Haddawy was doing a translation of the Syrian manuscript, but I think he was being a bit of a purist to insist that it's the only really authentic version, when a collection of tales like that inevitably grows over time and with the number of countries that are contributing to it. And of course he has done a second volume of the other tales.
The Delphi Classics would certainly be a good one for the enthusiast.
I can recommend Stranger Magic by Marina Warner, which is a quite scholarly study of the stories and their history.
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