[PDF] The Story Of The Porter And The Ladies Of Baghdad A Tale From The Arabian Nights eBook

Author : Anon E. Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :

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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 253 In this 253rd ÿissue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates ?THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD? As per usual a porter took his place in Baghdad?s market, reclining against his crate, waiting for business. A female wrapped in an iz r, exquisite in detail, probably manufactured in Mosul, with gold-embroidered silk and a border of gold lace. She ordered the porter to bring his crate and trolley and follow her. Thinking good fortune was smiling on him, he scrambles up and jogs after her. He follows her around the market as she shops, filling his crate with supplies. Soon his crate is full and almost overflowing. Then she bids him follow her home and they come to a well-appointed house. He follows her into the courtyard where she knocks upon a door. It is opened by a young maiden, clearly the sister of the woman he has been following all morning. She orders he take it up to the kitchen. Inside he sees a sumptuously furnished dwelling. decorated with various colours, and beautifully constructed, with carved wood-work, and fountains, and benches of different kinds, and closets with curtains hanging before them; there was also in it, at the upper end, a couch of alabaster inlaid with large pearls and jewels, with a musquito-curtain of red satin suspended over it, and within this was a young lady with eyes possessing the enchantment of B bil, and a figure like the letter Alif, with a face that put to shame the shining sun:. He sees she is a third sister. He almost drops the crate when his eyes fall upon her beauty. He is paid 2 pieces of gold, a veritable fortune for him, and given instructions to depart. He lingers and they think they have not paid him enough, but he is really ogling them. However, they pay him another piece of gold. They then enter more conversation whiling away the day quoting poetry and having discussion on many subjects. He notices it is getting dark when there is a knock at the door and they are joined by three men, each with a patch over his left eye. The three strangers are entertained with food and drink and more witty conversation. The three ladies not realising they are in the presence of the Kaleefeh (King), his Vizier and bodyguard, who were out and about in disguise to secretly assess what the people really thought of their Kaleefeh and what was on their minds. Having become lost they had knocked on a door to find directions home, when they were invited in. The evening continues and then some strange events take place. The Kaleefeh, the Vizier and the Porter are not sure if what they see is really happening or if they are hallucinating after becoming intoxicated. Upon returning to the castle the Kaleefeh order his Vizier to investigate whether or not what they saw was real. It is then that the stories emerge. What were the stories you may ask? Is what the Kaleefeh and the others saw really real? And what became of the porter and the three beautiful women? Well, you?ll just have to download and read this story to find out ? wont you? BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN?S STORIES FOR ONLY $1 33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365878317

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"Thirty-four stories from the Arabian Nights, adapted for children. One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern fold tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition, which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa, the tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indian and Jewish folklore and literature." --

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Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1605205796

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Notorious for the delight he took in tweaking the sexual taboos of the Victorian age-as well as the delight he took in the resulting shock of his bashful peers-British adventurer, linguist, and author CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890) is perhaps best remembered for his unexpurgated translation of the Eastern classic The One Thousand and One Nights, more famously known today as The Arabian Nights. Originating in Persian, Indian, and Arabic sources as far back as the ninth century AD, this collection of bawdy tales-which Burton was the first to bring to English readers in uncensored form-has exerted incalculable influence on modern literature. It represents one of the earliest examples of a framing story, as young Shahrazad, under threat of execution by the King, postpones her death by regaling him with these wildly entertaining stories over the course of 1,001 nights. The stories themselves feature early instances of sexual humor, satire and parody, murder mystery, horror, and even science fiction. Burton's annotated 16-volume collection, as infamous as it is important, was first published between 1885 and 1888, and remains an entertainingly naughty read. Volume I includes: [ Burton's introductory forward [ "Story of King Shahryar and His Brother" [ "Tale of the Trader and the Jinni" [ "Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban" [ "Tale of the Prince and the Ogress" [ "Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince" [ "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad" [ "Tale of the Three Apples" [ "The Reeve's Tale" [ "Tale of the Jewish Doctor" [ and others.

Author : Paulo Lemos Horta
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631493647

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“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully.” —Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker A magnificent and richly illustrated volume—with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images—of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton, Edward Lane, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations break decisively with this masculine dynasty, finally stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings while reclaiming the vitality and delight of the stories, as she works with equal skill in both Arabic and French. Included within are famous tales, from “The Story of Sinbad the Sailor” to “The Story of the Fisherman and the Jinni,” as well as lesser-known stories such as “The Story of Dalila the Crafty,” in which the cunning heroine takes readers into the everyday life of merchants and shopkeepers in a crowded metropolis, and “The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni,” an example of a ransom frame tale in which stories are exchanged to save a life. Grounded in the latest scholarship, The Annotated Arabian Nights also incorporates the Hanna Diyab stories, for centuries seen as French forgeries but now acknowledged, largely as a result of Horta’s pathbreaking research, as being firmly rooted in the Arabic narrative tradition. Horta not only takes us into the astonishing twists and turns of the stories’ evolution. He also offers comprehensive notes on just about everything readers need to know to appreciate the tales in context, and guides us through the origins of ghouls, jinn, and other supernatural elements that have always drawn in and delighted readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with art from Europe and the Arab and Persian world, the latter often ignored in English-language editions, The Annotated Arabian Nights expands the visual dimensions of the stories, revealing how the Nights have always been—and still are—in dialogue with fine artists. With a poignant autobiographical foreword from best-selling novelist Omar El Akkad and an illuminating afterword on the Middle Eastern roots of Hanna Diyab’s tales from noted scholar Robert Irwin, Horta and Seale have created a stunning edition of the Arabian Nights that will enchant and inform both devoted and novice readers alike.

Author : Traditional
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1291746706

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The classic of all classics: oe thousand and one love tales to save her life (one night of love one deatgh at dawn) callender classics

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443440795

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Although there are many editions of The Arabian Nights featuring a varying number of tales, all of the different editions are based on the same framing story about the Persian ruler, Shahryar, and his wife, Scheherazade. After being betrayed by one of his wives, Shahryar becomes untrusting, and though he continues to marry, executes each of his wives shortly thereafter. When he finally marries the clever Scheherazade, she tells him a tale on the night of their wedding, but refuses to finish it until the next night, ensuring her safety while the king waits for the conclusion of the story. The Arabian Nights, or One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of tales compiled over several centuries during the Islamic Golden Age. Although The Arabian Nights has been widely influential in both Arabic and Western culture, it is probably most famous for inspiring adaptations of the stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad. However, the stories “Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor,” were not included in the Arabic versions of The Arabian Nights, and were only added later by European translators. This edition of The Arabian Nights contains more than thirty of the most influential and canonical stories of the original Arabic version of Arabian Nights, including “The Hunchback’s Tale” and “The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad.” HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.