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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous

4 reviews

lindseyhall44's review

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Torture, Abandonment, Death, Racial slurs, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Child death, Classism, Animal death, Infidelity, Blood, Violence, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

4.0

The Annotated Arabian Nights represents a of selection of folktales from what is (without the orientalist moniker) properly titled the One Thousand and One Nights, giving a sample of a newer contemporary translation by Yasmine Seale alongside analysis. 

Although this book does not quite reflect Seale’s thinking on the Nights, her translation is engaging and clear in attention to cadence, rhyme, especially verse, and the voice of Shahrazad. While, like her visual poem “Sleepless” of Shahrazad’s waking eye, illuminating texts for modern audiences and up out of previous liberties taken by many. A labor sure to produce something glorious when that edition arrives in full. In the time being, the Annotated Arabian Nights is an immense book more suited to coffee tables and academic interest.

See an in-depth review on my blog. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Death, Violence, Sexual content, Infidelity, Alcohol, Racism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Incest, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Miscarriage, Infertility, Animal death, and Antisemitism

Dalila the Crafty includes drugging men and stealing their clothes.

carefulfearanddeaddevotion's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 some of the stories were repetitive or dragged on for too long, but mostly captivating and oftentimes funny

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Torture, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Slavery, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty

paintedgiraffe's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Slavery, Animal death, Murder, and Violence