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The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Dover Children's Classics) Paperback – June 1, 1969

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It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights. Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, magic words that open doors to great treasure, giants and dwarves, monsters and magicians, talking birds and beasts, the magical world of medieval Bagdad — these are the elements that thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all time.
The Arabian Nights stories have long been favorites, but unfortunately in their original form they are far too long — and often too erotic — for children. Andrew Lang selected the best, most interesting tales and has told them in a manner that children will enjoy. Here are Lang's own versions of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, of Noureddin and the Fair Persian, of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, and of the Enchanted Horse; and the many adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad and of Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad. A special treat is the inclusion of the full Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, which are not usually included in collections of Arabian Nights stories. Altogether there are 26 tales abounding with genies and peris, vizirs and dervishes…and they are certain to delight children today as they have for generations.
The vivid and imaginative illustrations which H. J. Ford provided for the original edition of this book have all been retained in the Dover edition — 33 full-page plates and 34 smaller drawings in the text. With the help of these illustrations and the large, readable type, school-age children will be able to enjoy the stories on their own.

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5.44 x 0.9 x 8.48 inches
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Dover Publications
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June 1, 1969
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0486222896
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978-0486222899

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; First Edition (June 1, 1969)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486222896
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486222899
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 18 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1210L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 12
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 0.9 x 8.48 inches

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Customers find the book readable and entertaining, with one mentioning it's delightful to read on a rainy day. The stories are mesmerizing and pure adventure, with one customer noting they're perfect for road travel with young kids. Moreover, the book features numerous drawings that are especially entrancing, and customers appreciate its re-readability, with one describing it as a classic re-read.

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22 customers mention "Readability"22 positive0 negative

Customers find the book readable, describing it as fantastical and fun to read, with one customer noting it's particularly delightful to read on a rainy day.

"...The Sinbad stories are connected but can be read individually. Good for kids or adults looking to spend a half hour with a short story." Read more

"...I was right. These are charming and sometimes hair-raising tales told with all the variety he can bring to his voice to mesmerize and enthrall...." Read more

"...of their format, the tales read like a children's book; short and to the point, explaining needed details, leaving out intermediate parts of the..." Read more

"...I love it. The stories had me in suspense and wow." Read more

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Customers enjoy the stories in this book, describing them as mesmerizing and full of suspense, with one customer noting they are perfect for road trips with children.

"...All that being said, these are relatively good versions of the traditional stories. They are fun to listen to...." Read more

"I read The Arabian Nights when I was little and loved the stories. I read the hard copy at that time, of course. It was an adaptation for children...." Read more

"...For those not of these lands, the stories seem fantastical and fun, but the under pinning are that of power and privilege over all other things...." Read more

"I couldn't put this book down for a mi nute. I love it. The stories had me in suspense and wow." Read more

7 customers mention "Entertainment value"7 positive0 negative

Customers find the book entertaining, with one mentioning that the genies are a world of fun.

"...They are fun to listen to. I probably enjoyed them as much as the kids did. The narrator is engaging, and his delivery is excellent...." Read more

"...Genis are a world of fun, but I prefer my fun to have meaning; ethical, moral and spiritual consequences which transcend this world, if you will...." Read more

"...I highly recommend this to any reader who enjoys curiosities...." Read more

"...have a hard copy, but this is ready whenever I want to reread those fun stories." Read more

6 customers mention "Visual quality"6 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the visual quality of the book, noting its beautifully rendered pages and especially entrancing drawings.

"...It is not particularly graphic, but if you have concerns about that kind of thing, you really should listen to the stories yourself before letting..." Read more

"...The subject of physical beauty, infatuation, jealousy, greed is repeated throughout...." Read more

"...It was in used condition- but it's gorgeous and I have fulfilled my fantasy!" Read more

"...The numerous drawings are especially entrancing and evocative. Highly recommended!" Read more

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Customers find the book re-readable, with one describing it as a classic re-read.

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EN-NJ
Nice collection of short stories
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2019
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This is a good book of collected short stories. I have not read any other collections of the Arabian Nights, but this was great. I picked it up and out it down over a few years but was able to always start on a fresh story that didn't carry on from the last. The Sinbad stories are connected but can be read individually. Good for kids or adults looking to spend a half hour with a short story.

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Georgia Burns
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I had the idea it would blissful to ride to work with Toby Stephens reading stories to me. I was right. These are charming and sometimes hair-raising tales told with all the variety he can bring to his voice to mesmerize and enthrall. I have heard other books on tape where the reader falters at the woman's lines or sounds too much the same to distinguish between characters. Toby can go from growl to light-as-air with the greatest of ease. These stories have far too much violence for the smallest of children but, otherwise, offer a delicious trip to fantasy land courtesy of a master storyteller.

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Good for kids ages 4+
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2008
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I recently purchased this CD set for my daughters to listen to in the car and at bed time. I was impressed with how much they enjoyed it. Several times we have had to sit in the car for a few minutes after getting home so that they could hear the end of a chapter.

Now, as for the stories themselves, be warned. These are NOT polished up, dumbed-down, sanitized disney versions. The language used is age appropriate for young listeners. However, there is a body count, and there is a scene where somebody dumps boiling oil in the jars with the murdering thieves. It is not particularly graphic, but if you have concerns about that kind of thing, you really should listen to the stories yourself before letting your kids hear them. Also, these are stories from the middle east, so there are several mentions throughout the stories to Allah. They are handled in a religiously neutral fashion, and only serve to remind the listener that the stories are from another culture. It is not some back door attempt to convert kids to Islam. All that being said, these are relatively good versions of the traditional stories. They are fun to listen to. I probably enjoyed them as much as the kids did. The narrator is engaging, and his delivery is excellent. I would recommend these CDs to anybody who is interested in introducing kids to the stories of Arabian Nights.

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Alina
Great Version of the Arabian Nights for children
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2012
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I read The Arabian Nights when I was little and loved the stories. I read the hard copy at that time, of course. It was an adaptation for children. I was looking now for the book for my daughter to read and I was so glad I found the kindle version. My daughter loves her kindle more than her DSI and she loves it more when she has a good story in it. This version of the stories was perfect for her. And a classic offered for free by amazon? That's brilliant! Getting the young readers interested in reading classics on e-ink is revolutionary.

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Pure Adventure & Outgrowing Foolishness ...Outgrowing Fairytales
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2012
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These stories are pure adventure with only superficial attempts at moralizing. They are fantastical and repeat themes of transportation to distant lands, magic infatuating lusts and power. The characters are revealed for you to be good or bad and relationships are intertwined with their worldly desires which focus on lavish gardens and palaces of competing grandeur, sweet water, and rich foods. Motives are simple and straight forward, all focused on love, money and social standing. The subject of physical beauty, infatuation, jealousy, greed is repeated throughout. Stories always resolve fully with the frequent ending being the assumption that peace, love and happiness is forever after.

The stories are told succinctly and occasionally abruptly with few attempts at building anticipation or develop the imagination although this may be in part due to the editor (admittedly) screening out the `dull' parts. Still, an attempt could have been made to soften transition points and somewhat engage the imagination. Because of their format, the tales read like a children's book; short and to the point, explaining needed details, leaving out intermediate parts of the stories so as to be able to jump to the next conclusion. Perhaps this is why I was annoyed with this book throughout. But more so was I annoyed because of the repeated themes of foolishness, lust, vanity, greed, arrogance and the abuse of power.

I believe a review should be, as they say, "Just the facts, Mam". Reviews are not the best place to express your purely emotional response to a story. Still, while reading these stories, I could not rid myself the feelings of irritation for the characters foolishness and abuses. Frequently these tales told of youth, spoiled children entitled and privileged by heredity, who viciously abused their servants, were compelled by their unbridled passions (infatuations & lusts) to undertake some adventure. Instead of their adventures leading them to some moral conclusion or change of character (for which I am accustomed), they eventually had their lusts fulfilled, their lives enriched and lived happily forever after. Perhaps this is why all the Chalifs (kings), really just the grown versions of their entitled spoiled and vicious children, were so eager to cut the heads off of their innocent victims. Could they not consider any other form of justice than death? But, beheadings is a cultural insult, a reference to which I am not wholly familiar.

Something distinct in these tales is the impression that the highest aspirations in life are that of power, riches and beauty. Moral imperatives, although insinuated slightly, are almost completely missing from these stories and always secondary and less than consequential to the plot. Critics were easily silenced with gifts and exhaustive explanations of why they (the privileged) were more entitled and deserving than the rest of society, almost to the point of saying that adventure and danger was a right to privilege above that of a good stewardship or humble servitude. Many of the adventures were spurned out of the pure boredom of having everything.

The powerful were often cruel and vicious. The powerful always seemed concerned with conspiracies and subterfuge which might dethrone them. This may be why many of the tales deal with the powerful feinting generosity with lavished meals and gifts of money on their detractors in what is obviously a ploy to earn their condolences. But by any true accounting it is clear that they had given away an insignificant bribe to buy a conversion. The stories did not balance the cruelties issues for false conviction with any balance of penance (to which I am accustomed), having their years of base cruelties dispelled in an instance (never needing forgiveness) and without a twinge of stinging (profound) guilt. The powerful where always right (excused) in their actions, even in their severe and cruel injustices.

I had to ask a friend familiar with southwest Asian studies to clarify if whether these stories were not a commentary on the cultures of that region. They advised me that they are more an aristocratic view of the poor (they control). I was relieved to learn that these stories are not a true reflection of that society for such a reflection would be a shallow one at best. But, I would extrapolate that these stories may be a means of society manipulation. For those not of these lands, the stories seem fantastical and fun, but the under pinning are that of power and privilege over all other things.

I guess I have finally outgrown the silliness and cruelty of childhood fairy tales. The reality of this world compels me to search for more morality than these stories offer. I do not plan on reading these stories to my children without taking great liberties at `improving' on the morals of these stories. Genis are a world of fun, but I prefer my fun to have meaning; ethical, moral and spiritual consequences which transcend this world, if you will. These are by no means the only fairy tales which are lacking. But these were the ones which stole my innocence away from me. These are fun adventures, but as a parent, I much prefer Aesop's Fables.

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BeRry entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2020
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I couldn't put this book down for a mi nute. I love it. The stories had me in suspense and wow.

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Compelling tale of wonder!
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2016
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It's been a long ti,e since I've read this book, and I honestly did not remember more than half of it considering I had read it as a child. I absolutely loved every minute of it! I highly recommend this to any reader who enjoys curiosities. It delivers you to a place of imagination and allows you to bask in a world of fantasy that's unlike any other! I managed to read this to my son in a week, and he enjoyed it as well. If I could give it 100 stars, I would!

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hasnt aged well
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024
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its almost unbearable to read by todays standarsds. as a child i loved it but i just cant stomach the misogny and cruelty . i get that they are fables, doent mean that they arent terrible

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Geraldine O'Brien
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2018
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Love these old stories......

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Bianca Flier
Zauberhaftes Miniatur-Märchenbuch
Reviewed in Germany on April 18, 2013
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Das Büchlein ist winzig, eine wirkliche Miniatur, aber ein wahres Juwel an Buchdruckerkunst.

Es enthält drei der bekanntesten Märchen aus 1001 Nacht:
- Aladin und die Wunderlampe
- Ali Baba und die vierzig Räuber
- Das Zauberpferd

Dazu etliche Illustrationen des genialen Edmund Dulac. Auch der Schutzumschlag ist von Dulac illustriert, und zwar mit einem seiner schönsten Aquarelle: Das verzauberte Schloss aus der Geschichte vom Fischer und dem Flaschengeist (ist nicht in dem Bändchen als Erzählung enthalten). Zudem ist jede Seite unten mit Miniaturgraphiken geschmückt.

Der Bucheinband ist schwarz, Leinenstruktur, goldene Aufschrift auf dem Rücken.

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Englischanfänger besser Hände weg
Reviewed in Germany on March 27, 2009
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Der Muttersprachler auf der CD spricht ziemlich schnell und fließend, hatte anfängliche Verständnisschwierigkeiten, bis ich mich mal daran gewöhnt habe. Also ein paar Jahre Englischunterricht sollten das schon sein. Oder die Handlungen der Märchen von 1001 Nacht gut auf Deutsch (meine Muttersprache) kennen. Es heißt doch immer als Englischlernende sollen wir Englisch denken wie die Muttersprachler. Genau dass, kann man hier gut üben.

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Good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2015
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Well read. My 6 year old grandson loved it.

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P. H. Racionzer
A well-constructed childrens edition
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2013
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This is not a bedtime story for the pre-teens. The latter part of the tale would hardly induce sweet dreams for those with active imagination. It is well suited to those old enough to read the tale for themselves, and is written in clear,simple language and in chapters of just the right length to regulate reading sessions. A good introduction to the 10-12-year-olds to the great arabian classic collection.

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