| 单词 | Arabian Nights |
| 例句 | Reading The Arabian Nights again has started me thinking...can stuff like this really happen? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z To Tristran, then, they seemed as distant and unknowable as the world of the Arabian Nights. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He was tall and mysterious-looking, more like a character in my Arabian Nights book than a man you expected to talk to. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick’s British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver’s Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Every hero from The Arabian Nights carried a scimitar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z This evening, a surprise: Tía Mari brought me The Arabian Nights, which has to be one of my all-time favorite storybooks. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Castles did not sprout up across western Europe the moment the legions disappeared; the Middle East was not transformed within a generation of the Arab conquests into a set from the Arabian Nights. What I'm thinking about … why history has put Australia behind a firewall 2013-03-02T03:49:39Z In practice, “Arabian Nights” is less elegant and less coy than Mr. Gomes’s “Tabu,” and not as haunting as his “Our Beloved Month of August.” Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z He drew on the imagery and stories from the Quran, as well as from Arabic and Persian poetry, particularly “The Arabian Nights.” Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The judges noted that “his stories are marked by the presence of the Quran or ‘Arabian Nights,’ and his English is patched with traces of Swahili, Arabic, Hindi and German.” Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The authors weave the magical beings into their own cultures, some taking heavy hints from “The Arabian Nights,” others using djinn as an abstract, heavy longing to belong or as a haunting presence on Mars. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z For each of those three hefty volumes, Robert Irwin, best known for “The Arabian Nights: A Companion,” supplied a characteristically learned and engaging introduction, as he does again for this new book. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Presenter Salma Hayek, wearing a lilac gown with tiers of sequins and rhinestones worthy of“One Thousand and One Arabian Nights,” cited the female solidarity that was changing how Hollywood was run. Oscars red carpet glitters in anything-goes fashion attitude 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Her vivid published version of the tales overturns European notions of what we/they call the Arabian Nights. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z Through its use of foreshadowing and prolepsis, “The Arabian Nights” consistently fosters a fatalistic sense that no one can escape his or her destiny. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Marina Warner's Stranger Magic is as absorbing, wise and playful as the Arabian Nights tales themselves. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z “Arab writing? There ain’t such a thing! For them, it was the Arabian Nights and that was it.” Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator of Arab Writers, Is Dead at 94 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z He starts with that – either with the familiar "closed room" or "closed circle" or with, as in the "Arabian Nights Mystery", a setting of pure fantasy, with a set of people behaving apparently like lunatics. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z The tales themselves are very much what we think of as “Arabian Nights” stories. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z They subsequently keep in touch by postcards, many from Iran, where Pomme lives an Arabian Nights fantasy, at least for a time. ‘One Sings, the Other Doesn’t’: Agnès Varda’s Polarizing Paean to Sisterhood 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z While some claim Jasmine is Arab because the movie opens with a song called Arabian Nights, others believe that the architecture in Agrabah is clearly based on the Taj Mahal, making Jasmine Indian. The fairest of them all? Two cheers for Aladdin's browner Princess Jasmine 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Alternately wistful and satirical, Wilde’s tales are suffused with biblical phraseology and an Arabian Nights atmosphere, even as they explore the dualities of beauty and ugliness, body and spirit, appearance and reality. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Overall, “Monkey King” lacked the charm of Western fairy tales, medieval chivalric romances or “The Arabian Nights,” each of which it occasionally resembles. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Anna recalls: “I was appalled. I went off on a rant about the ‘Arabian Nights,’ the collective nature of it, how it created a whole world through accretive storytelling: layers of lives lived simultaneously, intersecting. Review | In ‘Conviction,’ a woman’s innocent podcast addiction turns into something darker 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z “It sounds crude,” Soofi told me, of his first visit to Nizamuddin, “but, at that point, I saw the meat shops and crowds, and I felt I was in West Asia”—“Arabian Nights” territory. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s interspersed with the enchanting snake-charmer sounds of the Washint, a tribal flute, giving the music a mystical Arabian Nights feel. Notes from Ethiopia: the jazz revival in Addis Ababa 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Another urban story, “The Arabian Nights,” takes place in a nightclub and has an odd juxtaposition — a family hectoring a young girl to talk to a man who looks like, and might be, Clark Gable. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Yet many of the most scathing and insightful of recent political movies are fantasies, whether it’s “Get Out” or “Chi-Raq” or “Arabian Nights,” “Viktoria” or “The Love Witch” or “Black Panther” or “Isle of Dogs.” “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z This novel, divided into 1,001 fragmentary chapters — a number alluding to “The Thousand and One Arabian Nights” — reflects the infinite complications that underlie the girls’ deaths, and the unending grief that follows. Colum McCann Gives Voice to Grieving Fathers, One Israeli and One Palestinian 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z With around 250 titles to his name, Foreman's range is impressive: he moves effortlessly from Mother Goose and the Brothers Grimm to Beowulf, from The Arabian Nights, Shakespeare and Dickens to Chicken Licken. Michael Foreman: life through a line 2011-03-07T15:39:18Z It's like the cinematic progeny of "Not Without My Daughter" and "Arabian Nights" with a makeover by Valentino. "Sex and the City 2's" stunning Muslim clich?s 2010-05-26T18:45:00Z Resetting “The Arabian Nights” in modern-day Cairo, “Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story” presents an environment of oppressive politics and repressed women. | 'Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story': A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes 2011-08-11T22:45:54Z "As dawn breaks, the story of the night's drama is left written in the sand," he says later, as if reading from the Arabian Nights itself. Last night's TV: Wild Arabia – review 2013-02-22T22:59:01Z What he finds inside — and I’m not going to tell you — will be familiar to readers of the very similar “Third Dervish’s Tale” in “The Arabian Nights.” In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z But my all-time favorite is Scheherazade of “The Arabian Nights,” who saved her life and that of the women in her kingdom by telling stories. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Scene change ... the RSC's Arabian Nights at the Courtyard theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon last December. Should theatre critics be more diverse? 2010-06-09T16:22:00Z It’s a conspicuous show of its budget, but the story of its budget isn’t built into the film’s story—as it is in Gomes’s ingenious and trenchant “Arabian Nights.” The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Presenter Salma Hayek, wearing a lilac gown with tiers of sequins and rhinestones worthy of“One Thousand and One Arabian Nights,” cited the female solidarity that was changing how Hollywood was run. Oscars red carpet glitters in anything-goes fashion attitude 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Because of all these branching and interlinked narratives — sometimes likened to nested Russian dolls or the arabesque patterns of Islamic art — “The Arabian Nights” constantly defers closure. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The story begins promisingly enough, or at least more promisingly than most works of Dictator Lit, by deploying the story within a story device familiar to readers of The Arabian Nights. Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z The Arabian Nights Tricycle theatre, Box office: 020-7328 1000 It retains the classic framework in which Scheherazade delays death by telling a nightly tale to a murderous king. The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-09T18:01:14Z Brighton Royal Pavilion is at once a masterpiece of Arabian Nights fantasy, and the ancestor of every coin-machine arcade. Art and culture at the British seaside 2011-08-03T11:25:26Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Scan the schedules and you find'll versions of The Arabian Nights cropping up all over the UK. The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-09T18:01:14Z A sporty-meets-chic number resembled an updated version of an ‘Arabian Nights’ character. Marc Jacobs closes New York Fashion Week echoing Arabian Nights 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z A sporty-meets-chic number resembled an updated version of an ‘Arabian Nights’ character. Marc Jacobs closes New York Fashion Week echoing Arabian Nights 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Anyone raised on the Disney version of Aladdin may be surprised by Adam Green’s take on the Arabian Nights tale. Macaulay Culkin: 'Aladdin is a passion project' 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z In the book, David B. begins with a tale from 1001 Arabian Nights, about the rise of a common Persian fabric dyer to an all-powerful prophet. ArtsBeat Blog: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Mythic Tales of Man and Gods 2011-09-23T18:26:19Z But then my auntie, Tití, who was the reader in the family, gave me a picture book version of “The Arabian Nights,” and I was smitten. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z For the movie’s structure, Mr. Gomes turned to “The Arabian Nights,” whose heroine tells stories to her new husband, the king, to delay her death sentence. ‘Arabian Nights’ in Portugal Looks at a Gloomy Nation 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z In 1967, the term “Arabic literature,” for most Western readers, meant two books, the Quran and “The Arabian Nights.” Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator of Arab Writers, Is Dead at 94 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z During a tour of the booth, Mr. Wilson recalled his childhood visits to a cluster of clubs — like the Grecian Cave, the Egyptian Gardens and the Arabian Nights Café — around Eighth Avenue and 28th Street. A Wriggle in Time: Historical Artifacts of Belly Dancing 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z One of a kind, “Arabian Nights” is a distinctly Cannes-esque art film that responds to a complicated world with an extravagantly rendered realm of its own. Beachcombing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Arabian Nights tales are a surprising source of inspiration for an evening of theatre reflecting a more modern picture of the restive region today. This week's new theatre 2012-11-17T00:05:34Z Recently, old pictures of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada wearing a turban at an “Arabian Nights”-themed party, with darkened face, neck and hands, have surfaced, amid charges of cultural insensitivity. An Artist Who Appropriates With a Wink 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Warner is doubling down on Guggenhem, also hiring him to work on a draft of "Thieves of Baghdad," its "Ocean's 11"-meets-"Arabian Nights" project. Guggenheim to write "Da Vinci" action feature 2010-04-28T06:38:00Z And this impressive first novel manages to combine the narrative magic of “The Arabian Nights” with the kind of emotional depth, philosophical seriousness and good, old-fashioned storytelling found in the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Books of The Times: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ a Novel by Helene Wecker 2013-05-06T19:57:43Z “One Night” distills these nested tales, known as “One Thousand and One Nights” or the “Arabian Nights.” A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’ 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z At one point, Anna recalls a long-ago argument she had with Leon about what she refers to as the “Arabian Nights,” which he’d derided as simple children’s tales. Review | In ‘Conviction,’ a woman’s innocent podcast addiction turns into something darker 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, over at the Lowry, the Library theatre's Christmas treat is Dominic Cooke's version of Arabian Nights. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-23T16:10:31Z The harrowing sight of a gigantic cerulean Will Smith will haunt youngsters for years to come, and yet there’s little else memorable about Guy Ritchie’s take on the Arabian Nights folktale. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z He dived headlong into fiction with the ambitious goal of writing 101 stories — a play on “The Arabian Nights” — and began sleeping less and less. How L.A. writer Ben Loory came to write his odd, beloved fables 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The third chapter of “A Conversation Larger Than the Universe” surveys works published in a single year, 1885, beginning with Richard Burton’s translation of “The Arabian Nights.” Review | An expert’s guide to science fiction’s greatest — and neglected — works 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Arabian Nights: Volume 1 — The Restless One” runs 2 hours 6 minutes. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z What “Arabian Nights” tries to do is something even more radical, which is the erasure of the distinction between the literal and the metaphorical. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In his substantial introduction, Paulo Lemos Horta, who teaches at New York University at Abu Dhabi, deftly surveys several centuries of “Arabian Nights” scholarship. Review | 7 beautiful books that transport you to the worlds of Bond, Tolkien, Spider-Man and beyond 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The “Arabian Nights” is on a lot of artists’ minds, bringing up issues of colonialism, Arab culture and feminism. At the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang do their bit for cultural healing 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Lythgoe Family Panto’s “Aladdin and His Winter Wish” is loosely based on the “Arabian Nights” tale of Aladdin. The 99-Seat Beat: A theater in fire-scarred Ventura makes its holiday wish 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z "A Thousand and One Knives", as the title suggests, owes something to the Arabian Nights and the ancient fantastic tradition of Arabic writing, now revived by the pains of Arab modernity, particularly in post-invasion . The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z I am one of six writers from the Arab world invited to write a tale using the vehicle of the Arabian Nights to reflect on what is currently going on across the Middle East. Palestine: Diary of a historic month 2012-12-14T10:00:02Z Or even better, I’d try the Arabian Nights approach: Put Sultan Trump in a room with dozens of fabulous storytellers. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Best subtitle From Arabian Nights: “Oh melancholy man tell me the truth - does your willy wiggle?” Cannes 2015, week two report: perfect Pixar but Gus goes gooey 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Galland’s Arabic text comprised what scholars refer to as the “core” stories of “The Arabian Nights,” beginning with the prologue that explains their astonishing origin. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Among them: the word “barbaric” has been deleted from the opening song, “Arabian Nights,” and replaced with “chaotic,” reflecting a change previously made for the 2019 live-action film. As Broadway Returns, Shows Rethink and Restage Depictions of Race 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z But it was decided to give Iglehart the show's prologue, "Arabian Nights," in which the main characters are introduced. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z I say “of course” because Irwin is most widely known as the author of “The Arabian Nights: A Companion” and several other excellent books about Arabic culture. Review | For fans of ‘Game of Thrones,’ a new novel set amid the War of the Roses 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Rimsky depicts four “Arabian Nights” tales mainly through color and atmosphere. At the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang do their bit for cultural healing 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Several tales about girls oppressed by step-relations appear in “The Arabian Nights,” a medieval compendium of Middle Eastern fables. Cinderella gets to go to the ball — in Seattle Opera production 2013-01-03T20:22:20Z Though lacking the charm and artfulness of “The Arabian Nights,” these medieval fantasies should nonetheless appeal to anyone who loves “tales of the marvelous and news of the strange.” In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z In his autobiography, Miracles of Life, JG Ballard suggested that illustrated versions of The Arabian Nights helped prepare him for surrealism. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3byg2 The Arabian Nights, Tricycle, London30 November to 12 January“In Baghdad, a young woman starts a revolution through the power of storytelling.” The 10 best Christmas shows for 2012 2012-11-10T16:01:00Z Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865, was the most spectacular illustrated edition to be published in the Victorian age. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z Marina Warner's exploration of a storytelling classic, "Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights," received the criticism prize. Caro wins National Book Critics Circle bio prize 2013-02-28T23:35:11Z Communities were renamed Mecca and Arabia; the yearly date festival offered an “Arabian Nights” pageant and the crowning of “Queen Scheherazade.” 113 degrees at work, failing AC at home: Farmworkers can’t escape life-threatening heat 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The Scheherazade shares a name with the female storyteller in “The Arabian Nights,” and it made one brief foray into the Red Sea in September 2020, calling at the Egyptian port of Hurghada. A 459-Foot Mystery in a Tuscan Port: Is It a Russian’s Superyacht? 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The book that we now usually call “The Arabian Nights” didn’t originate in the Arab world. Opinion | Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The same question emerges: why would evolution select for the creation of an inner fabulist to spin your own "1,001 Arabian Nights"? Is there a scientific case for literature? A neuroscientist novelist argues yes 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z He’s saved a few fancy outfits and fezzes that Guy used to wear during solo and band jobs at restaurants such as Haji Baba’s in Inglewood and Arabian Nights in Fresno. Guy Chookoorian was the novelty record king of Armenian L.A. His death marks the end of an era 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Saeed Mohammed, an agent at Arabian Nights Tours in Dubai, said he frequently faces difficulties obtaining UAE entry visas for Iranians, Turkish citizens and those from Yemen’s rebel-held capital due to simmering political tensions. Travel agents in Mideast, Africa say UAE is blocking visas 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z As part of the con, they even pretended to conjure up spirits from the lamp, in line with the tale from The Arabian Nights, Indian media report. Indian doctor duped into buying 'Aladdin's lamp' for $41,500 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Unlike the “Arabian Nights” stories, however, they have faded from modern readers’ consciousness, perhaps because their insufficient attention to happy endings made them unattractive to the Walt Disney Company. Opinion | Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The prime minister himself faced criticism last year after images showing him in brown face makeup at a 2001 “Arabian Nights” party when he was a 29-year-old teacher emerged just weeks before the federal election. Canada launches its Black entrepreneurs program 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The dense urban fantasy played with Islamic and Arabic mythology, from jinns to flying prayer rugs to Arabian Nights, while also commenting on Arab-Israeli politics. Muslim women are building new worlds in science fiction and changing the confines of the genre 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Our phone calls, some of them hours-long, began to remind me of the Arabian Nights, as if sharing these tales of his life with Lois might offer some reprieve from the present threat. Special Report: Married for 50 years, a couple are separated by the coronavirus 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The famous “Arabian Nights” collection of stories, also known as “One Thousand and One Nights” is based on al-Rashid. Secret 'piggy bank' of 1,200-year-old gold coins discovered in Israel 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The ruling Liberals were knocked off course when Time magazine published a picture of him in brown makeup at a 2001 “Arabian Nights” party when he was a 29-year-old teacher. Canada's Trudeau pushes on with campaign after severe blow from blackface photos 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z First, Noah looked at the photo that kicked off the firestorm – a photo from an Arabian Nights party in 2001, in which Trudeau wore an Aladdin costume and dark brown makeup. Stephen Colbert: 'Thank God Trump never keeps his promises' 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z At the time, Mr. Trudeau was a drama teacher at a private school in Vancouver and he costumed himself for an “Arabian Nights”-themed fundraiser. Justin Trudeau under siege as new blackface images surface 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Trudeau was 29-years-old at the time the photograph was taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed gala; it later appeared in a yearbook for the West Point Grey Academy, where he worked as a teacher. Justin Trudeau apologizes for 2001 photo showing him in brownface: "I should have known better" 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Trudeau had already apologized Wednesday after a school yearbook image emerged of him wearing dark makeup and a turban at an Arabian Nights party in 2001. Justin Trudeau pictured wearing blackface in new video as third racist incident emerges 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The photo of Trudeau was taken at the school’s annual dinner, which had an “Arabian Nights” theme that year, Trudeau said, adding that he was dressed as a character from “Aladdin.” ‘Deeply sorry’ Trudeau begs forgiveness for brownface photo 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z “He’s in a full Aladdin outfit at an Arabian Nights themed party! No one was going to see him and be like, oh, white skin – are you the snowman from Frozen?” Stephen Colbert: 'Thank God Trump never keeps his promises' 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z He says it was taken at the school’s annual dinner, which had an “Arabian Nights” theme that year. Photo of Justin Trudeau in brownface surfaces amid reelection campaign 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Even the location is up for grabs: the Aladdin of the “Arabian Nights” hails not from an Arabic land but from what Horta calls “a distinctly Islamic China.” A Live-Action “Aladdin” Falls Short of Its Animated Predecessor 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The former takes the film from “Arabian Nights” straight into the heart of the city to encounter Aladdin, who saves Jasmine from getting in trouble in Agrabah’s marketplace. Disney’s Aladdin remake feels weirdly unfinished 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z In an introduction, Horta lays out the historical argument for separating “Aladdin” from the stories known as “The Arabian Nights,” in which it is usually included. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z He wrote: “Here would be found a panorama of beauty that would throw into shadow the fables of wonderful palaces and cities told of in the Arabian Nights.” How Gillette's founder dreamed of a car-free, moneyless metropolis 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In The Arabian Nights, there are both gender switching plots and cross-dressing. ‘Different sex. Same person’: how Woolf’s Orlando became a trans triumph 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The foreigners bring an athletic, high-energy sensibility to the dance, more disco than Arabian Nights. Foreign Belly Dancers? Egyptians Shake Their Heads (and Hips) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Like Williams before him, Smith opens Aladdin with “Arabian Nights,” a song which needed its lyrics altered for cultural sensitivity even back in 1992. Disney’s Aladdin remake feels weirdly unfinished 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z When he strolled into the Sherman Hotel's convention hall looking as if he had stepped out of the pages of the Arabian Nights, press photographers made a beeline for the exotic Oriental. The 'maharajah of magic' who terrified the UK 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Arabian Nights Cast members from the national tour of "Aladdin" perform in this benefit. The week ahead in L.A. theater, March 18-25: 'All's Well That Ends Well' and more 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z In 1993, his efforts helped persuade Disney to change the lyrics to the song “Arabian Nights” in its animated musical “Aladdin.” Jack Shaheen dies; scholar persuaded Disney to alter 'Aladdin' as he fought Hollywood's racial stereotypes 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “What impressions of Arabia will small children have when hearing ‘Arabian Nights,’ a song whose main enticement is uncivilized folk advocating ear-chopping?” he wrote. Jack Shaheen, who worked to dismantle Arab stereotypes in media, dies at 81 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z In the end, I was amazed by the variety of chairs that can spring up on demand, like minions out of the Arabian Nights. The Best Camp Chairs for Music Festivals, Picnics and Soccer Games 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Photograph: 'Ali the Iranian' “My city is Shiraz,” Ali began, like a story from the Arabian Nights. Doctor, artist, engineer, blogger: human stories of Malta's own migration crisis 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z "Something of the wonder of the Arabian Nights, of the glory of the East, of our own war, of fairyland, of womanly power and eternal beauty, is manifested to us by this masterpiece of cinematography." Annette Kellerman: Hollywood's first nude star - BBC News 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The references to the game in the Arabian Nights attest to its popularity. Chess is gloriously rebellious. Maybe that’s what Saudi Arabia’s mufti fears | Stephen Moss 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Arabian Nights been touring film festivals this year and is now headed into a theater in New York. 9 new trailers you should watch this week 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The people who pour into Firoz Shah Kotla every Thursday hold a variety of views about the djinn, or genies, wish-fulfilling but capricious creatures described in Islamic cosmology and “The Arabian Nights.” A Castle Receives a Weekly Delivery of Delhi’s Secret Desires 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Related: Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights He called on the books industry to “unsettle” readers. Salman Rushdie: 'We challenge fears. Literature is unafraid' 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He has trawled a sea of Indian and Arabian wonder tales for this novel, such as The Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra, hauling all of it into a baroque and barnacled fantasy narrative. Salman Rushdie: ‘It might be the funniest of my novels’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z But, clearly, it creates an image of harem life for western eyes – an erotic idyll of Arabian Nights decadence. How a fake Qatari sheikh exposed the west’s confusion over Islam 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z As a giant title card in this trailer will tell you, Arabian Nights is not an adaptation of the classic Arabian Nights. 9 new trailers you should watch this week 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z For an evening to be memorable, the young audience must be exposed to the trauma at the heart of fables descended from the Brothers Grimm, old English folk tales and the Arabian Nights. Pantomine Has Never Been So Outrageous – Or So Popular Alibaba, named for the “Arabian Nights” character who uttered “Open sesame” to get into a treasure cave, did just that. How the tech-unsavvy Jack Ma took Alibaba public and became China’s richest man He visited Calais on the boat trains of the South Eastern Railway, which he blessed “for realising the Arabian Nights in these prose days”. The 'Delectable' Eurostar Turns 20 in Style Dickens invited Gaskell to contribute to his magazine Household Words and addressed her "Dear Scheherazade", after the storyteller in Arabian Nights. The 'fearful' Mrs Gaskell 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z In one of the many tales of Arabian Nights, a poor woodcutter named Ali Baba discovers untold treasure in a thieves’ den. China's Alibaba Finds Riches on Wall Street 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z From Aesop’s Fables to Arabian Nights, many classic stories are about ad- venture and quests. An excerpt of "The Happiness of Pursuit" 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z They named it after Ali Baba, the poor woodcutter who discovers hidden treasure in The Arabian Nights folk tales. Alibaba's IPO May Herald the End of U.S. E-Commerce Dominance 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “Philip Glass and I are going to create a new opera called The Palace of Arabian Nights. Tonight is the kickoff.” The Watermill Center Summer Benefit And Auction Raises A Record $2.2 Million 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z His short pieces were morality tales written in the style of the Arabian Nights, which soon began to touch on mathematical themes. Brazil's odd passion for mathematical stories 2014-05-05T23:26:41Z To be fair, “Arabian Nights” did have some vivid descriptions of a sexual act, but the flowery language made the particulars rather confusing. Opinion: Soviet-Era Sex Ed 2014-03-01T19:30:12Z The book on the top of the pile is 1,001 Nights - the Persian name for Arabian Nights. Iran's 1,000-day countdown 2013-11-16T15:13:25Z There are numerous examples of early Islamic sci-fi or fantasy fiction from the Arab world, not least of course, the fabulous Arabian Nights, replete with flying carpets, mystical jinn and even a little intergalactic travel. Close encounters of the Arab kind 2013-10-09T00:03:55Z These personal reflections on storytelling, inspired by the Arabian Nights, form a companion-piece to her celebrated A Field Guide for Getting Lost. 2013: the year ahead in books 2013-01-04T22:55:02Z The most fantastic tale that ever appeared in the Arabian Nights is no more astonishing than the feats performed with waste material by the German industrial chemist. 50 Years Ago: From Babbage to Google 2012-06-01T11:15:10.590Z See story, in the Arabian Nights, of the old rogue whose fine-looking money turned to leaves. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z It is monstrous, formless, whimsical, and fantastic, if you will; but it is also magical and gorgeous as anything in the Arabian Nights. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z She was living with every moment of rapturous reality the dreams of wonder that the Arabian Nights had brought her in youth. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z This is, unfortunately, a true story, and not one out of the Arabian Nights. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z Arithmetic to him is like the art of the geomancers in the Arabian Nights,—an art which is able to accomplish every imaginable impossibility. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Among other distinctions it first gave to the world The New Arabian Nights of Stevenson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z It resembled an episode from the "New Arabian Nights." Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z It is like a scene from the 'Arabian Nights,' or the wonderful creation of a kaleidoscope.... Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z It is the Serendib of the “Arabian Nights,” rich in glorious scenery, equable climate, tropical vegetation, unknown quantities of gems and pearls, and many minerals. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z His best-known works are illustrations of the "Arabian Nights." English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z We’re like the fisherman in the ‘Arabian Nights’ who found a bottle on the shore and learned that it held a powerful genii. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z A great name, great power, glorious pleasures, the smile of beautiful women, delights such as the author of The Arabian Nights only dimly dreamt of—it is my will that you shall have them all. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z But here in the mysterious foreign land it had its deep valley, walled in like the valley of the Arabian Nights, over which the great bird hovered looking into the depths for food. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Then he went to Bagdad itself—the fabled city of Haroun-el-Raschid and the Arabian Nights—from whence he started into the very heart of Persia. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z The Arabian Nights is a kind of piece that will be the better for "working up," and indeed it is a joke which will be improved by repetition. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z It is all a fairy scene, such as one reads of in the Arabian Nights. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Unless Paris had seriously deteriorated, he felt sure he could make them realize how sad and colorless were the wildest dreams of the Arabian Nights. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Immense skill and labour are required in this process of adornment, but it yields in splendour to none, flashing in bewildering light, and realising the fabled glories of the palaces of the Arabian Nights. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z In the day of its glory Panama was a veritable Arabian Nights city, with some two hundred warehouses for the storing of stolen treasure. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z They are not far wrong, however, for it is more amazing than any wonder described in their "Arabian Nights." Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z And then its history is as strange and marvellous as any tale of the Arabian Nights. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Thus it is I am inclined to believe we lay down under an orange tree and dreamed a dream of the "Arabian Nights." Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z By the time she was twelve, she had read through Shakespeare, Walter Scott, "Don Quixote," "The Spectator," "The Arabian Nights," Johnson's "Lives of the Poets"; then, inter alia, Milton was an early favourite. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Relationship is worth something, even in a library; I have placed the two volumes, already published, between the works of Sir Walter Scott, and a highly prized edition of the Arabian Nights. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Or, suppose the young Poet fresh stored with delights from that Bible of childhood the Arabian Nights, he will turn to a crony and cry, "Jack, let's play that I am a Genius!" Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z After all, Boccaccio and whoever made "The Arabian Nights" lived long before Poe and in Poe's stories are evident traces of old tales of magic and mystery. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The adventures of the hero read like chapters from the "Arabian Nights." The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z "You mentioned the 'Arabian Nights' that evening in the caf�," scoffed Mills. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z The Prince and his attendants arrived, magnificent as figures incarnated from the "Arabian Nights"; and the entrance of the principal guest was the signal for a charming surprise. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z The romantic prestige of his mode of life was vanishing now for all time; the Arabian Nights palace was being converted into a hospital ship.... The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z What did the writers of the "Arabian Nights" imagine equal to their more magical achievements? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Unless you wish to lose all enthusiasm for the Arabian Nights, keep away from Egypt. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z I mean the 'New Arabian Nights' sort of thing. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z An Arabic MS., in seven volumes, written in 1764-5, and containing what is rarely met with, a complete collection of the Thousand and One Tales of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, was bought from Capt. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z The Arabian Nights are not entirely fiction, as is usually supposed: the story of Seif el Muluk refers to facts in the Malay Annals, and describes the people, country, and winds about Sumatra. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z The previous day he had bought a copy of the "Arabian Nights" for a shilling. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z An examination of the narrative method of the old Metrical Romances and of many of the Arabian Nights Tales will by contrast illustrate Poe's comment. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z It was like a tale out of the Arabian Nights, I tell you! A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Above all—but I want to have the pleasure of surprising you, so I will only say that the place rivals any of the magnificent palaces described in the Arabian Nights. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z The writer's description must, therefore, be classed with that of afreets, genii, and the like, in the Arabian Nights tales. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z But then India sounded to us like a fairy-tale place, impossibly rich and mysterious, a country out of The Arabian Nights at the very least. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Chief amongst these latter stood two personages who figure prominently in the Arabian Nights—the Vizier and the Executioner. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z It was of a giant bird, like the roc of the Arabian Nights. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z Really, it seems to be a tale from the Arabian Nights that I am listening to! The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z The cause of her exile is not really known: we have only a wild story concerning it, which finds an exact parallel in one of the tales of the “Arabian Nights.” The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z Carlyle told me that his father always spoke of such tales as "The Arabian Nights" as "downright lies"; by which he no doubt meant fables without any indication of being such, and without any moral. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z But, apart from these three sources, the 'Arabian Nights' has in the course of centuries accumulated and absorbed an immense number of Oriental folk-tales of every description, equally various in origin and style. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z When the adventurers came to Java they heard some tales that were marvelous, and that quite equaled those which Queen Scheherezade of the Arabian Nights told of Sinbad the Sailor. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z And, if you must quote "The Arabian Nights," it's as well to remember in future that the more correct term is not "Genius," but "Jinnee." The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z Several mezzotints of Watts' pictures hung on the walls and a collection of framed illustrations of the Arabian Nights, by Dulac. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z At first, like the poor olive merchant in the Arabian Nights I was blinded by the glare of lights and the glitter of glass and silver. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z The modern title, 'Arabian Nights,' tells only a part of the truth. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z It was indeed a scene from the "Arabian Nights." Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z And, just before, as it happens, Mr. Pringle had been reading "The Arabian Nights." The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z I think, after all, there is no book I would prefer to the Arabian Nights—no doubt the Tales of the Genii are also excellent. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Imaginative newspaper writers had pictured the Gray Phantom living like an East Indian potentate in some snug retreat, surrounded by countless treasures and a splendor that would have offered a gorgeous Arabian Nights’ setting. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z It was all like a page out of the Arabian Nights, but he put the wonder of it away, grasped Frank’s hand, and, crouching, ran toward the incline leading to the lake. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z Why, it seemed to him that Colonel Hitchins must be one of those wonderful story-tellers he had read about in the Arabian Nights Entertainment. Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield 2011-09-22T02:00:24.220Z You did say "The Arabian Nights," didn't you? The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z What about those old movies, the popular ones such as Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, The Ten Commandments, etc, are not available. Netflix Is Not Facing The Innovator's Dilemma 2011-09-20T04:25:13Z "Since the days of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, we know of no writer who 'takes the cake' like Mr. George Griffith." The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z “It will be like a story from the ‘Arabian Nights,’” he said. A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time 2011-09-09T02:01:08.700Z This story of Floris and Blanchefleur, however, does not come from Greece, but from the same source as the Arabian Nights. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z You don't mean it might be like that jar the Fisherman found in "The Arabian Nights," with a Genius inside it? The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z The “Arabian Nights” pleased better, but he could not quite understand them. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z "Fables as delightful to him who reads them in his brain as those of the Arabian Nights are to ordinary minds," said her father, smiling. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time—they, and the Arabian Nights, and the tales of the Genii. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z A veritable scene from the old Arabian Nights indeed! The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Tabor came to Denver in 1859 and from this point his career reads like a story from the Arabian Nights. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z One depicts her and her “gentleman caller” lounging by a stream in "Arabian Nights"-style costume amid a group of goats, with snow-capped mountains off in the distance. The Appraisal: Losing a Neighbor, and a Link to a Building?s Past 2011-08-22T21:33:44Z Popular rumour magnified and magnified the tale till it became like a chapter from the Arabian Nights. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z They kept alive my fancy and my hope of something beyond that place and time—they and the Arabian Nights and the Tales of the Genii. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Sir Thomas, between those three great towers, two thousand feet up in the air, will very shortly come into being a fantastic pleasure city like a dream of the Arabian Nights! The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Could the genii of the Arabian Nights have done better? Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z Its past story reads like an Arabian Nights' tale. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The account of the illumination of the Golden Temple reads like an extract from the Arabian Nights. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z Thus a tragedy was averted, and, like the p. 69man in the ‘Arabian Nights,’ he felt that his life had been mercifully preserved on account of the greater misfortunes yet to befall him. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z In the same way, M. Carnoy finds only the faintest traces of the influence of a collection so popular as the Arabian Nights. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z He would have liked the Arabian Nights better than Dumas. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z There they stood, like the forty jars in which Ali-Baba caught the forty thieves, in the Arabian Nights. Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story 2011-07-18T02:00:19.717Z It was our mystery story, our marvel, our current Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The Arabian Nights would make queer history, yet they would prove a wet fuse and fail to kindle the mind if they did not suggest actual experience. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z He was living in an age whose simple record must remain more incredible than the tales of the Arabian Nights. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z The ugly dwarf, with the long beard and diminutive stature, seems a malignant "Jinn," and to have his counterpart in a well-known legend of the Arabian Nights. Polish Fairy Tales 2011-07-10T02:00:20.137Z The caves described in the Arabian Nights are not more wonderful than the rock citadel of Verdun; in many ways they are not so marvelous. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z He has love scene, In which they exchange rhymed couplets In Arabian Nights fashion. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Then he took up a volume of his favourite Arabian Nights and found, after reading a page, that he had not understood a sentence of the print. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z The interior is an embodied page out of the Arabian Nights. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Of the numerous illustrated works published by Mr. Knight, the Pictorial Bible was the most successful in a pecuniary sense, and he considered the Arabian Nights the most beautiful as regards illustrations. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z “I think it not unlikely that the ‘Milesian Tales’ contained the germs of many of those now in the ‘Arabian Nights.’ Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Or something of the kind drawn from Arabian Nights. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z And once the prophetic remark was made: "Piecraft's proper r�le is that of a character in the Arabian Nights." All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z And two figures, issuing from the wall like apparitions in the Arabian Nights, passed by hurrying along—a big, comfortable great-coat and a small dark thing tripping beside it. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Tellers of marvellous stories, more wonderful than the Arabian Nights, had come, and tried their little best to please. Told on the Pagoda Tales of Burmah 2011-05-22T02:00:12.060Z The familiar little Hunchback of the “Arabian Nights” has been a universal favourite; it may be found everywhere; in “The Seven Wise Masters,” in the “Gesta Romanorum,” and in Le Grand’s “Fabliaux.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But beneath the full meridian of midnight, what is like them, except some parts of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments? Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z Lane, in his edition of the “Arabian Nights,” gives some curious details on Moslem ideas regarding him. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z “Mariana,” “Recollections of the Arabian Nights,” “The Dying Swan,” “A Dirge,” “Love and Death,” and “Circumstance.” Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z The real facts, however, are not so poetical; yet Hazlitt says that the story outdoes the “Arabian Nights.” Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z They are double walls of glass, supporting floors of glass—layer upon layer of crystal corridor, suspended in the air as by genii out of the Arabian Nights. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z When Antoine Galland, the much-feted French Orientalist translator of the Arabian Nights, charmed Parisian society in the 18th Century with his translation, Ali Baba was one of the most popular tales. Open Sesame 2011-04-20T23:30:42Z What then must be the suffering inflicted on the unhappy being torn from a sacred temple and forced into a palace, even were it a thousand times more dazzling than any in the Arabian Nights? Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Most of them contained an abbreviated adventure from the “Arabian Nights” collection. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Some of his extravagant fancies remind one of the Arabian Nights, or old fairy-tales, more than of anything in these latter days. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z It was like a page from the Arabian Nights. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z The Arabian Nights introduced readers the world over to a bewitching world of magic, genies, evil spirits and iconic heroes. Open Sesame 2011-04-20T23:30:42Z It could not have been more than a hundred feet wide and three hundred long, but like a fabled spot in the "Arabian Nights" it shone resplendent with incredible riches. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z And in Penrith I began a new set of books which charmed me quite as much as “Robinson Crusoe” and the “Arabian Nights” had done. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The Arabian Nights is also profoundly realistic, though both the subject-matter and the method of treatment—the technique—are very different from the subject-matter and the technique of Zola. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z The clapping of hands to call servants reminds one of the “Arabian Nights;” the seclusion of women savors strongly of the restraints of the harem. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Thence it is, that a hundred women read The Thousand and One Arabian Nights, for one that reads two chapters of Locke. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z As we walked, Miss O'Donnel told me stories from the Arabian Nights or Ovid's Metamorphoses, varied sometimes by descriptions of life among the British aristocracy. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z As to the altar, I can only say that it appeared a mass of gold, silver, and embroidery, such as we read of in the "Arabian Nights." The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z One of these grand dinners is like a page of the Arabian Nights to a man of ordinary condition; but surely his Grace the Duke, or the most Noble the Marquis has no such illusions. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Isn't it a fairy tale—a dream of the Arabian Nights? A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z I was weaned from the Primer and Spelling-book with the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, and the works of Defoe, Goldsmith, Addison, and Shakespeare. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z This is evidently an Arab tale, though I do not remember it in the Arabian Nights. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," in Arabian Nights. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z Two hundred miles below Mosul is Bagdad, which recalls the "Arabian Nights." The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z I feel like those people in the Arabian Nights who had been all their lives in a glass tower on a desert island. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z They had heard tell of such things from the Arabian Nights, but could hardly believe their senses when actually beheld by themselves in the present day. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Like Scheherazade in the “Arabian Nights,” he always contrived, when he quitted this fair, sad creature’s side, to leave something for her mind to rest upon; some subject which she would wish resumed. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z "The Fisherman and the Genie," in Arabian Nights. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The Arabian Nights is full of improvised poems. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z You know that story in the Arabian Nights about the prince that was changed into a bird? A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Thousand and One Nights The Arabian Nights Entertainments With an Introduction illustrative of the religion, manners, and customs of the Mohammedans by Jonathan Scott, . . . A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Stories of their encounters with wild beasts and cruel savages were eagerly listened to, but were regarded as marvelous tales, similar to those of the "Arabian Nights." The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z He has been to all the places you want most to go to, and he can tell stories just like The Arabian Nights. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z I am sorry to have to confess that the rectory shelves held no copy of "The Arabian Nights." Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Then from this beginning the boy can wander at his own sweet will and keep friends with Jacobs, Perrault, Grimm, Andersen, and, last of all and no doubt best of all, "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments." Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z The Arabian Nights has been translated from the original into all languages, although the primitive tales still serve to amuse Arabs when told by the professional story-tellers of today. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The grace and elegance of the appointments, the brilliant lights and coloring, add novelty and enchantment to a scene that might have been taken from the "Arabian Nights." The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z "I read all that, and it was almost as unreal as a page out of the Arabian Nights." Half-Hours with the Idiot 2011-01-22T03:00:18.853Z Here is, indeed, a diversion, but it has arisen, legitimately enough, from that shilling, paper wrapper volume of "The Arabian Nights" bought in 1875 or '76 or thereabouts. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z For example, if he is a sixth-grade boy, he must by some means manage to get "Robinson Crusoe" and "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments." Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z The sources of the leading tales of The Arabian Nights cannot be traced. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The court of the palace bears the name of the Court of the Genii, suggestive of tales from the "Arabian Nights." The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z If you're not, you might walk through all the Arabian Nights and only feel bored and uncomfortable. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z It’s like a story out of the Arabian Nights.” Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z It is enough to know that the verdict of time has been rendered in favour of such books as "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments," "Robinson Crusoe," and "Gulliver's Travels." Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Then it ranked with the Arabian Nights as a thrilling story, though there were many tedious passages in which Christian debated religious topics with his companions. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z A prettier example of an Arabian Nights Tale, done into springing, easy verse, it would be difficult to find. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z I was going to say that this is like a fairy tale to me—some 'Arabian Nights' story. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z We find, in the Arabian Nights, a cornelian, on which unknown characters were engraven; and, also, a sabre, like those here described. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z In this book are ballads, fables, fairy stories from Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," and other sources, as well as "Goody Two Shoes," selections from "Gulliver's Travels," classic myths, and other well-known stories. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Sir Richard, his unexpurgated edition of the Arabian Nights, 42.Byron, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z But, soon after, in Batavia, a grey disappointment had fallen like a cold, drizzling rain upon her expectation of seeing everything in India as a beautiful fairy-tale, a story out of the Arabian Nights. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z A more beautiful creature could not have stepped out of the pages of the "Arabian Nights." The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z Thus, in the Arabian Nights, Bedreddin Hassan, having filled a large porcelain bowl with sherbet of roses, put snow into it. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The ‘Arabian Nights’ story of the old rogue whose money turned to leaves will be recalled. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Edward W., who wrote the best translation of the Arabian Nights, 42.Lang, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z There would be a people’s fair, numbers of little stalls and booths and a Malay theatre, with plays drawn from the Arabian Nights. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Mr. Lane saw the last of Cairo in its integrity; and he has not overstated his qualifications, as author of the "Modern Egyptians," for the task of translating the Arabian Nights. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments Chatham pronounced him “all fire and air,” and warned him against reading The Arabian Nights. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The village named was the scene of his exploits, many of which were miraculous to the point of Arabian Nights marvelousness. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Sir Richard Burton, who translated an unexpurgated edition of The Arabian Nights, with many notes and an essay on the sources of the tales, ascribed the fairy tales to Persian sources. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z It was like a brilliant stroke in a play or a tale from the “Arabian Nights,” worthy of French imagination; and here this wonderful American from the woods had made it an accomplished fact. The True Benjamin Franklin Has been long esteemed in this country as the compilation of one of the greatest Arabic scholars of the time, the late Mr. Lane, the well-known translator of the 'Arabian Nights.'... The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy See also the Story of Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves, in the Arabian Nights, vol. iv, p. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z They were a picturesque lot—their costumes purely Oriental—their bare feet encased in shoes right out of the Arabian Nights pictures. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise It is the scene of a number of the tales of the Arabian Nights. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis There is somehow, amid the scenes encountered in these quaint streets, a suggestion of the Arabian Nights which haunts one all the while, only a degree less forcibly than at Cairo. The Story of Malta You are domiciled here like a prince in the 'Arabian Nights,'" he exclaimed; "that's what comes of being born a Junker, I suppose. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Fishes of the same colour are mentioned in the Arabian Nights; and, like these, were endowed with the gift of speech. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z As she stood, holding the drawn curtain with one hand, she looked as if she had stepped straight out of the pages of the Arabian Nights. The Gay Adventure A Romance The expression Barmecide Feast, meaning a visionary banquet or make-believe entertainment, originates from the Barber's story of his Sixth Brother in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis This myth of the magnetic mountains, probably originating with Nicander, appears, possibly from an independent source, in the East, in China, and in the tales of the Arabian Nights. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments In The Arabian Nights he read over and over again the stories of Aladdin, The Forty Thieves and Sinbad, owing to their familiarity through earlier narratives. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The walls and roofs are covered with stalactites of every conceivable hue and shape, and forming pictures of beauty far beyond anything conceived of, even in the Arabian Nights. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future "There it is!" they cried together, standing like two delighted children watching a kindly rock from the Arabian Nights. The Gay Adventure A Romance They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time—they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii—and did me no harm. Springtime and Other Essays Such a going forth is only heard of in the Arabian Nights. The Moonlit Way These were The Lamplighter, The Arabian Nights in a small paper-bound volume of diminutive print, and a Tale of the Black Rising in Jamaica which included an earthquake. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Surely the very thought of him brings up the Arabian Nights and the Calif Haroun. The Fortunes Of Glencore Compare the gross stupidity, or rather the atrocious impiety of this tale, with the pure theism of the Arabian Nights, and judge whether the Deity was better worshipped at Cologne or at Bagdad. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 But in the Arabian Nights a completely different Arabic word is found, viz. "jinn" with its feminine form "jinni." Stories from Tagore He imagines railways as we imagine dragons, and the Bloomsbury boarding-house from which my sister wrote on her return from India is, from his point of view, a place in the Arabian Nights. A Man in the Open It included a full set of the "Waverley Novels," the works of Miss Edgworth, Martin's "Milton," Pope's "Iliad and Odyssey," some quaint translations of the "Arabian Nights," and Locke's essay on "The Human Understanding." Lafcadio Hearn That Dorian, who is heir to an earldom, should have fixed his affections upon her governess, seems to Mrs. Redmond like a gay continuation of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments." Faith and Unfaith His name was Mamajam, and on our arrival he brought his little daughter Fatima to see me, and another youth named Abdullah, completing the Arabian Nights impression he had already given me. Russian Life To-day When Mr. Lane was living at Cairo, and translating the Arabian Nights, he found that the people still believed in metamorphosis. Custom and Myth New Edition Tennyson's reading, 76, 77; his 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights,' 162. The Voice and Spiritual Education And Literature is like that famous hill told of in the 'Arabian Nights,' where threatening anonymous voices shouted the most deadly insults and injuries to anyone who attempted to climb it. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. The only works of ornamental literature which he seemed to have read were the Arabian Nights, which he had forgotten, and something of Dickens, which had put him to sleep. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes A great many people I knew in London were accompanying me, and calling after me, as the stones did after Prince Pervis, in the Arabian Nights. An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc Any day, just as in the Arabian Nights, a man might find himself turned by an enchanter into a pig or a horse. Custom and Myth New Edition "Oh, I don't care," Bob replied in a catholic spirit; and added meditatively: "In the Arabian Nights all the genii are black." The Shadow He thought it would make a funny 'Arabian Nights' sort of burlesque. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. It appeared, then, that I had been reading a legend concerning myself in the Arabian Nights. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Of the same class is the Roman de l'Escouffle, where a hawk carries away the heroine's ring, as in a well-known story of the Arabian Nights. A Short History of French Literature It was like floating in the air, and I imagined myself riding on that magic carpet in the Arabian Nights. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 His story, as he related it to me at dinner last night, was like an adventure from the Arabian Nights. The Green God His favorite books were Robinson Crusoe, the Arabian Nights, Gulliver's Travels, and all stories of adventure and travel. Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 All this is perfectly true, but it is no longer wonderful, at least not in the Arabian Nights sense of that word. Lectures on The Science of Language The tales of the Arabian Nights, with all their wealth of fancy, are insipid and insignificant compared with the authentic narrative of the adventures of the Italian mariner and his sublime discovery. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time Novelty, as in the Arabian Nights, may attract in youth for a single publication; but fairy or Eastern tales will never form the intellectual bread of life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 She was a large menacing-looking mulatto, like some ogress of the 'Arabian Nights,' capable of devouring, if she found them palatable, any number of salt babies. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses In its radiance the curtains were damask, the old carpet a Persian-hued luxury, and the preparations for cooking an Arabian Nights' display. Anne They sound so Arabian, and remind one of the "Arabian Nights." Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Entomologists as a rule were not transported by magic carpets into Arabian Nights for modest achievements such as the discovery of a new species. The Brain His reign, therefore, furnishes a series of anecdotes and tales like to those of the Arabian Nights, and was surrounded with an Oriental glamour and mystery. Women of Early Christianity The Arabian Nights, though in less degree, has also preserved to us evidences of ancient chivalry and romance. Oriental Women Some of you, no doubt, have read the stories of magic in the "Arabian Nights Entertainments," and thought them very odd, if not absurd. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read Many of the stories told by the Arabs resemble those of the Arabian Nights; and a large proportion of these are not very refined. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant Borne on by the crowd, he found himself presently in the main avenue of the fair, and his first amazed impression was that he had been transported to a scene in the "Arabian Nights." Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa He recalls a parallel to it in the Arabian Nights, and fancies that its germ may have been an allegorical mode of expression in which someone covertly told the story of the suspected intrigue. Women of Early Christianity She is reported as having delivered her nation from captivity, and has been identified with Esther of the Hebrew Scriptures, as well as with Shahrazaad the Jewess of the Arabian Nights. Oriental Women The same story was repeated in the Saracenic power, when the Caliphates of Bagdad and of Damascus rose to that wealth of which the "Arabian Nights" gives a picture. The Boy With the U.S. Miners They were conceived by Beckford as three episodes complete within themselves, which he proposed to interpolate, in the manner of the “Arabian Nights,” into his famous Oriental story of “Vathek.” Tourcoing His favorite books were "Robinson Crusoe," "The Arabian Nights," "Gulliver's Travels," and all stories of adventure and travel. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 Why, Captain, you could have wadded me up and drawn me through a finger ring like one of those Arabian Nights shawls. The Vision of Elijah Berl It is from this collection by the Princess Homai that many suppose the Arabian Nights was constructed. Oriental Women An instance is afforded by Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights" series or Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales." The Technique of Fiction Writing The vast richness which is hidden in those primitive rocks will one day, perhaps, be brought to light, rivaling the dazzling stories of the Arabian Nights, or the fascinating extravagances of Jules Verne. The Pearl of India One of these little valleys reminded me of a scene in the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments;" it was indeed a fairy land, to describe which I am quite incompetent. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment The Arabian Nights, and other oriental books of fable, though loose and faulty in many respects, yet have always a reference to the religion of the country. Coelebs In Search of a Wife She found it as interesting as a story of the Arabian Nights, or an exciting play at the theatre. Strangers and Wayfarers All the literature of pure fancy, from the humorous essays of Bacon through the Arabian Nights to the nonsensical rhymes of Lear, must be treated with great gravity of tone and temper by the interpreter. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation To W. E. Henley The “Arabs” mentioned below are the stories comprised in the volume More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, written by Stevenson and his wife in collaboration. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) The people take a vast amount of pleasure in reading the descriptions of their staid, soldierly old field-marshal attired in Oriental garb and figuring among scenes which might have been taken from the Arabian Nights. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. The reflection of the figures and firelight and precipices in the deep waters calls up all sorts of tales of Arabian Nights and road robbers and old lawless days. Through Our Unknown Southwest The door was opened by a figure right out of The Arabian Nights, or so it seemed to the young people. The Egyptian Cat Mystery Miss Porter, I was told, was “drawing” in Hawaii; and Dumas and the Arabian Nights were named as having pleased extremely. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) My house is the loveliest spot in the universe; the moonlight nights we have are incredible; love, poetry and music, and the Arabian Nights, inhabit just my corner of the world—nest there like mavises. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) In true Arabian Nights fashion they mounted and rode away. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 And then she’s the jolliest soul you ever knew, and she’s a regular Arabian Nights’ entertainment when it comes to telling stories.” Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted A most interesting story of the late Rebellion; founded on startling facts. 12mo, cloth, beveled, 352 pages, price 1 50 Arabian Nights' Entertainments. The First Little Pet Book with Ten Short Stories in Words of Three and Four Letters A reader of the “Arabian Nights” felt quite at home. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) As for the interior, it is a page out of the "Arabian Nights." Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The whole story, Dr. Johnson used to say, was as marvellous as any page of "The Arabian Nights." Old and New London Volume I "I could tell you a romance connected with that wing which savours of the Arabian Nights," said Dalton. Banked Fires I have this Barlow knife and the 'Arabian Nights,' and I'm to be a doctor, like my father. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon ‘What the Rose did to the Cypress’ is a story from Persia, where the people, of course, are civilised, and much like those of whom you read in ‘The Arabian Nights.’ The Brown Fairy Book It is quite edifying, in the Arabian Nights, to read the thanks that are so often and so rapturously given to the Supreme Being for his bestowal of such charms on his creatures. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. It is really a collection of separate tales and allegories, as much as the Arabian Nights, or, as its counterpart and rival of our own century, the Idylls of the King. Spenser They are the fairy tales and the Arabian Nights’ entertainments of science. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Others no sooner saw the New Arabian Nights than they recognised a tale-teller such as had not been seen for a long time—such as, in respect of anything imitable, had never been seen before. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing ‘You’ve been to America since last I read the “Arabian Nights,”’ said I, a little suspicious. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston In the early part of life he had undergone many curious adventures at sea, which he now recounted somewhat after the manner of the tales of the “Arabian Nights.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) It had been dedicated to Isis by the Queen of Rameses the Great; and the descriptions which travelers give of it, resemble those of the palaces in the "Arabian Nights." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Have finished Arabian Nights and Edinburgh book, and am a free man. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) The phrase about Chaos and the Evil Genius is Carlyle shut up in narrow space like the other genius or genie in the Arabian Nights. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing ‘I am a magician out of the “Arabian Nights,” and this mat that I have under my arm is the original carpet of Mohammed Ben Somebody-or-other. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston So excellent an artist as Stevenson, in the "New Arabian Nights," began each tale in the collection with a paragraph in which he expounded the main traits of the leading character. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews It is within the bounds of possibility that you may take up this volume, and yet be unacquainted with its predecessor: the first series of New Arabian Nights. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) How did the people in "The Arabian Nights" manage? The Brass Bottle "I am going out into the broad, deep world, and write books full of wonderful thought, like the Arabian Nights!" Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It Many of these tales had found their way into our poetry long before the translation of the Arabian Nights; and are met with in the old Fabliaux, and in Boccacio, Ariosto, and Chaucer. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc At once we find ourselves in a scene of mystical beauty, in an extravagant voluptuous dream of loveliness, such as the Arabian Nights alone could dare to suggest. The Naples Riviera The stories of him quite bring one back to the "Arabian Nights," and they could not have chosen a more appropriate ballet for him than "Le Calife Voleur." Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) After all, his only authority for the marriage and decease of Bedeea was the "Arabian Nights," which was not unimpeachable evidence. The Brass Bottle It is all like the wonders of the Arabian Nights made tangible or like a strange spectacular dream. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science No Child's Library should be without a good collection of Fairy Tales, a careful selection of the Arabian Nights, or Robinson Crusoe. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed In their rambles about some of the old cities of Spain, they were more than once struck with scenes and incidents which reminded them of passages in the Arabian Nights. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches In the 'Arabian Nights' the lover repeats a passage of135 poetry and then faints from emotion, and Disraeli's lovers are apt to be as demonstrative and ungovernable in their behaviour. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I seem to remember something about a quick-change combat with an Efreet in the "Arabian Nights." The Brass Bottle It was a larger and more absorbing fairy story than any in the Arabian Nights. Money Magic A Novel And she can tell a story that beats the Arabian Nights! Carmen Ariza It was a sight to dream about; and almost involuntarily reminded one of a scene from the Arabian Nights. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. Even the fascinating Arabian Nights affords nothing better, provided we read it with the eyes of common sense, and without that prejudice which so often blinds us to the absurdities of "God's Word." Bible Romances First Series And after dinner he went to his shelves and took down Lane's three-volume edition of "The Arabian Nights," which he set himself to study with a new interest. The Brass Bottle For truth, better give them AEsop's Fables or the Arabian Nights; for purity the Decameron or Don Juan; for examples of justice the story of Blue-Beard or the life of Henry the Eighth. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures In that case the Koran will succeed the New Testament, and the Imitation of Christ give place to the Arabian Nights. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Whether in the Bible, the Koran, the Arabian Nights, Monte Christo, or Baron Munchausen, a tremendous "walker" is the fit subject of a good laugh. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Now this is a very strange, a very startling story; it seems more like a chapter from the "Arabian Nights" or the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" than from the sacred Scriptures of any Religion. Bible Romances First Series With all his many faults, he was a thoroughly good-natured old devil—very superior in every way to the one the Arabian Nights fisherman found in his bottle. The Brass Bottle So excellent an artist as Stevenson, in the “New Arabian Nights,” began each tale in the collection with a paragraph in which he expounded the main traits of the leading character. A Manual of the Art of Fiction In other words, the pattern of your stories appears to have been taken from the Arabian Nights and from Grimm’s Fairy Tales—but with not a millionth part of the interest. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 No little Gradgrind child had ever seen a face in the moon, or learned Mother Goose or listened to fairy stories, or read The Arabian Nights. Tales from Dickens There is the magical unexpectedness of the Arabian Nights, the vanity of vanities, all is vanity, of the Preacher, and the humour of the French satirist. Amaryllis at the Fair If any further explanation were needed, the accidental blow to the back of his head, together with the latent suggestion from the "Arabian Nights," would amply provide it. The Brass Bottle About this outing there have been woven stories of a glamour which might have come from the fancy of O. Henry and the author of the "Arabian Nights" working in collaboration. Westward with the Prince of Wales "Gee! you'd think it a page from the Arabian Nights," Tubby declared. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields Yet, like the “Arabian Nights,” they will amply repay the attention of the older reader as well. The Chinese Fairy Book This curious book is a fusion of the Arabian Nights, Ecclesiastes, and Rabelais. Amaryllis at the Fair "You don't think it has a genie inside, like the sealed jar the fisherman found in the 'Arabian Nights'?" cried Sylvia. The Brass Bottle In the Arabian Nights the purveyor for the Sultan of Casgar tells a story of a man who lost his thumbs and great-toes through eating garlic. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Millions were not so plentiful in those days, and the reports which reached the outside world sounded like the Arabian Nights or some fairy-tale. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia Like a ballet done for a Sultan in the Arabian Nights. Love and Lucy I think perhaps you will like this better,” said Mr. Knox, taking down a copy of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance They are like the genii in the 'Arabian Nights' whom Solomon, the son of David, sealed in the pot. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences I suppose it doesn't really deceive people any more than the "Arabian Nights," or "Gulliver's Travels" do. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Paul revelled in "�sop's Fables," "Robinson Crusoe," "The Swiss Family Robinson," "Don Quixote," "Treasure Island," "The Arabian Nights," "Gulliver's Travels," and classical legends. War Letters of a Public-School Boy He speaks of “the liaison” with all the rude simplicity and frankness of the Arabian Nights. The Book of Khalid He seemed to have wandered into an Arabian Nights' tale. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real As these myths, or sacred fables, tell of strange adventures, I think you will like them quite as well as even the Arabian Nights. Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly His quick imagination spanned the gaps in the narrative until he had a picture before his eyes that savored of the Arabian Nights. The Web of the Golden Spider It is beautifully laid out, and to us, fresh from the uncouth barbarism of our shanty and its surroundings, this place seems to breathe of the "Arabian Nights." Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He has published other Diwans, in which French morbidity is crowned with laurels from the Arabian Nights. The Book of Khalid If she had been she would not have saved her inheritance for the purpose of squandering it on a wild-goose chase worthy of the “Arabian Nights.” Louisiana Lou A Western Story The romantic story of the Mongols and their achievements has been written so completely that it is unnecessary to repeat it here even though it is as fascinating as a tale from the Arabian Nights. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' I can't remember whether it's like that in the "Arabian Nights"; perhaps it's a new rule.' Oswald Bastable and Others And to this occult power he appears to ascribe a magical potency, that recalls memories of the "Arabian Nights." Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand There is something unreal about it all, something that makes one think of the Arabian Nights and an enchanted garden. Round the Wonderful World At first the Khedive paid great attention to him, receiving him with a splendour which suggested the "Arabian Nights." General Gordon A Christian Hero Somehow they did not think of the Arabs in this narrative as of the same race and faith with the Arabs of Bagdad and the other places in the "Arabian Nights." A Boy's Town Perhaps his most noteworthy literary achievement was his fine translation of the 'Arabian Nights,' which appeared in 1885. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The slave of the ring in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments had a holiday life of it in comparison. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago But she did pore over "Rasselas," and an odd collection of adventures in Eastern lands, very like the "Arabian Nights." A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Lois was tired, she was hungry; this sudden escape from din and motion and dust, to refreshment and stillness and a soft atmosphere, was like the changes in an Arabian Nights' enchantment. Nobody He liked the "Arabian Nights," but oddly enough these wonderful tales made no such impression on his fancy as the stories in a wretchedly inferior book made. A Boy's Town I love it the same as my children love The Arabian Nights and The Swiss Family Robinson. The Prairie Child The stories they tell are more or less on the order of the Arabian Nights, though perhaps even less suitable for mixed companies—which for the rest are never found in coffee-shops. All About Coffee I’d hearn that the great hotel that wuz nighest to us looked by night jest like one of the fairy palaces we read about in Arabian Nights, and one night we see it. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands It reads like a romance, a story out of "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History I thought you’d appreciate what little Arabian Nights I was able to introduce. Turn About Eleanor I think he really caught it from an illustration in The Arabian Nights, from the picture of Cassim grandiloquently proclaiming “Open Sesame!” The Prairie Child She had never read of anything like it, but the Arabian Nights had not come in her way. A Modern Cinderella “Golden Beard and Ali Baba and the whole Arabian Nights!” exclaimed Neeland. The Dark Star Except for the housewifely tastes, it sounds, and in fact is, rather like a courtship in the Arabian Nights so far. Home Life in Germany I thought of Gulnare in the Arabian Nights, and felt disposed, like Mirza, the King of Persia, to “embrace her with great tenderness.” The Land of Thor In short, it is the ideal city of the Arabian Nights. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months It was like stepping into "The Arabian Nights" come to life. In the Tail of the Peacock You have only read of such a scene in some Oriental tale—in Mary Montagu, or the “Arabian Nights.” The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Sometimes it is kept in tall black earthenware pots, suggestive of those in which the Forty Thieves of the Arabian Nights concealed themselves. India and the Indians Might it not be some gorgeous freak of the emperor, such as the sultan in the Arabian Nights enjoyed at the expense of the poor traveler? The Land of Thor This ideal city of the Arabian Nights is very Oriental, very original, very curious. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The "satans" have in part coalesced with the jinn; see Lane's Arabian Nights, "Notes to the Introduction," note 21. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Thus in Holland lands rise, sink, and reappear, like the realms of the Arabian Nights at the touch of a magic wand. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) “Like the huge Ruck from Gillingham that flewe.”—It seems remarkable to meet with the roc of the “Arabian Nights” in English so long before the existence of any translation. The Battaile of Agincourt It might be the Arabian Nights, or fairyland. The End of a Coil It only remains, to complete this new tale of the Arabian Nights, to make one's first visit to the sequoias of Mariposa Grove. The Book of the National Parks In the days of its prosperity it rivalled Kufa and Wasit in wealth and size, and its fame is in the tales of the Arabian Nights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" How its splendour impressed the imagination may be seen from the stories of the Arabian Nights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" I felt an irresistible desire to be alone, and to convince myself that the news was real, and not a page out of the “Arabian Nights.” Major Frank Yes, I do, father; and mother has a longing for some of those Arabian Nights things in the curiosity shops. The End of a Coil "Truly, my dear Brigaud," said the Marquis de Pompadour, "you are like the princess in the 'Arabian Nights,' who never opened her mouth but to drop pearls." The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental "When I read the Arabian Nights, I found out that Oriental tales have no morals," dryly observed Mr. Rose. From the Car Behind Last time I went to see him, when he was at home for the holidays, I found among his books a nice copy of ‘The New Arabian Nights.’ Bird of Paradise In the night, wandering at random through the streets, their silent whiteness filled me again with that intoxicating sensation of the Arabian Nights. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia It was as good as the "Arabian Nights," she thought, and a great deal better than the cave in the "Swiss Family Robinson." Eyebright A Story At the end of six months, like the ape in the Arabian Nights, he wrote six kinds of writing; and imitated men's faces, trees, and animals. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental Flavia loves that sort of thing, too; she and I grew up on the Arabian Nights and Byron and Irving. From the Car Behind The only disadvantage, as somebody once complained of the Arabian Nights, is that one is apt to lose one's interest in a hero who is liable at any moment to turn into a camel. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study In Cordova recollections of the Arabian Nights haunt you till the commonest sights assume a fantastic character, and the frankly impossible becomes mere matter of fact. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia One might as well sift, in the same manner, a fiction of the Arabian Nights; and, setting aside the supernatural, admit whatever is natural to be true. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 I told my mother a fine story—a regular "Arabian Nights" tale, and got out of her a second "Chanukah" present of ten "groschens." Jewish Children “A tale of the Arabian Nights,” you may say, and yet it is historic. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology The vivid light and the black shadows, the variegated crowd of the Canabier Prolongue had for him an “Arabian Nights” fascination, but the wharves held a deeper fascination still. The Pools of Silence Thirdly, he exhibits, in his supernatural matter, a new and powerful influence on fiction generally—that of the first translated Arabian Nights. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 L. But why do you want me to tell you true, any more than the man who wrote the 'Arabian Nights?' The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing From the navel hung a great white object, like the traditional roe's egg of the Arabian Nights. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories The stored electricity in the latter was like the imprisoned genii of the Arabian Nights. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Whatever Mr. Weevil's knowledge of science, it did not lend itself to feats of magic worthy of the genii in the enchanted realms of The Arabian Nights. The Hero of Garside School But those who have known that peculiar city by the Golden Gate and have caught its flavor of the Arabian Nights feel that it can never be the same. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror In spite of the business-like appearance of the room, the business-like attitude of the two men opposite to him, he still felt that odd Arabian Nights’ entertainment sensation. Antony Gray,—Gardener The revolution it produced in our Government, and the bold attempt of Thaddeus Stevens to Africanize ten great States of the American Union, read now like tales from “The Arabian Nights.” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Whenever Monte-Cristo established himself in a new home, the house became transformed as if a magician of the Arabian Nights had touched it with his wand. The Son of Monte-Cristo Besides, think of the Arabian Nights’ enchantment of the change from his lonely and shabby bed-sitting-room in the Rusholme Road to this fragrant palace with princess and all to keep him company! The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Like Harun-al-Rashid in the Arabian Nights, he delighted to wander about, often with Barrie, sometimes with Lestocq, seeking out strange and picturesque places in which to eat. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The Arabian Nights entertainment sensation he had formerly experienced in the offices of Messrs. Parsons and Glieve, rushed upon him with an even fuller force; yet here the lighter and almost humorous note was lacking. Antony Gray,—Gardener The great event of my childhood was my father’s gift to me of an English version of Monsieur Galland’s book, ‘The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.’ Marjorie The possibility of Galland's version having passed into the East from Europe does not seem to have been considered till I suggested it in my Introduction to the Arabian Nights. Europa's Fairy Book When relating to me this Arabian Nights’ adventure, he drew my special attention to his astuteness. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol I went through ever so many of the Arabian Nights stories, with the shells for caliphs and weseers, genii, and enchanted damsels. A Christmas Posy There are going to be some fortunes made in raising cotton over there," Bob nodded toward the Mexican line, "in the next four years that will sound like an Arabian Nights' tale of farming. The Desert Fiddler Pompey, encouraged, brought out the old coney, his wife, and seven young ones,—all, like the callenders in the 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments,' blind of one eye, and that the same eye. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. A couple, like "Androcles and the Lion" and "Day Dreaming," owe a similar spread to literary communication even though in the latter case it is the popular literature of the Arabian Nights. Europa's Fairy Book The wildest visions of the Arabian Nights are nothing to the piazza of Saint Mark, and the first impression of the inside of the church. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The superior officer put a whistle to his lips, and like the genii in Arabian Nights, his servant instantly appeared. Dorothy's Travels The extended body of eastern stories known as The Arabian Nights are also placed here, as is Cervantes' Don Quixote. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes It was like "The Arabian Nights," wonderful, alluring, seductive and strange. The Kangaroo Marines It came to Europe before the Arabian Nights and became popular in La Fontaine's fable of Perrette who counted her chickens before they were hatched, as the popular phrase puts it. Europa's Fairy Book "I never heard of anything like this, out of the 'Arabian Nights.'" Fernley House He liked the Arabian Nights, but oddly enough these wonderful tales made no such impression on his fancy as the stories in a wretchedly inferior book made. Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells The Arabian Nights' Entertainment or Thousand and One Nights is a collection of about four hundred old oriental stories, chiefly from Persia, India, and Arabia. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes He thought it would make a funny “Arabian Nights” sort of burlesque. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly |
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