Buy this book on-line McCAUGHREAN**, GERALDINE - Adaptation by: : One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. (OXFORD ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS.)UK.OXFORD.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,1982. ISBN 0192745301.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Blue ink owner's name to top edge of ffe,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Stephen Lavis,illustrated dw/dj,with b/w+pale blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and ubiquitous light fading/sunning - as usual/normal.Majority of any light creasing is to top edges of the dw/dj,a tiny snick/ puncture to dw/dj's front panel's vertical edge.Top edges slightly dust-soiled with minimal spotting/foxing,fore-edges brighter but slightly grubbed/marked; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vipp+1-249pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,35 chapters/stories,12 full-page,full colour illustrations/plates throughout the text and the book,plus b/w line illus chapter head+tail pieces - all artwork by Stephen Lavis,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,colour plates list/table and a dedication.
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'Stories are carried from the desert Kingdoms of India,Persia,and Arabia of a time overshadowed by the tall and glorious Shahryar of Sasan.
They are stories first told to the King, under the black tent of night,by his Queen, Shahrazad - stories of Sinbad the Sailor, Pearl-harvest the lute-player,Ala al-Din and the black dwarf,Princess Shans al-Nahar,and the wonderful Jinni of the Lamp.'
This is a completely new version of
the Arabian Nights - translated and adapted by Geraldine McCaughrean - many of the stories have never appeared before in a collection for children.They include fables,romances,narrative jokes,and fairy tales,and are linked to one another by the King and Queen's own love story.Shahrazad's attemptes to stave off execution by telling just one more story have been expanded to fuller effect than in any previous version.
It is written in a style that is clear,gripping and poetic - one which conveys the flavour of the original and preserves the context of a magic,jinni-ridden,cruel,desert world.
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