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The Arabian Nights Or, the Thousand and One Nights Various Authors

Publisher Marketing: Christmas Summary Classics This series contains summary of Classic books such as Emma, Arne, Arabian Nights, Pride and prejudice, Tower of London, Wealth of Nations etc. Each book is specially crafted after reading complete book in less than 30 pages. One who wants to get joy of book reading especially in very less time can go for it. About The Book There is as much doubt about the history of "The Thousand and One Nights" as that which veils the origin of the Homeric poems. It is said that a certain Caliph Shahryar, having been deceived by his wife, slew her, and afterwards married a wife only for one day, slaying her on the morning after. When this slaughter of women had continued some time he became wedded to one Shahrazad, daughter of his Vizir, who, by telling the Commander of the Faithful exciting stories and leaving them unfinished every dawn, so provoked the Caliph's curiosity that he kept her alive, and at last grew so fond of her that he had no thought of putting her to death. As for the authorship of the stories, they are certainly not the work of one mind, and have probably grown with the ages into their present form. The editions published for Christian countries do not represent the true character of these legends, which are often exceedingly sensual. The European versions of this extraordinary entertainment began in 1704 with the work of one Antoine Galland, Professor of Arabic at the College of France, a Frenchman who, according to Sir Richard Burton, possessed "in a high degree that art of telling a tale which is far more captivating than culture or scholarship." Sir R. Burton (see Vol. XIX) summed up what may be definitely believed of the Nights in the following conclusion: The framework of the book is purely Persian perfunctorily Arabised, the archetype being the Hazar Afsanah. The oldest tales may date from the reign of Al-Mansur, in the eighth century; others belong to the tenth century; and the latest may be ascribed to the sixteenth. The work assumed its present form in the thirteenth century. The author is unknown, "for the best reason; there never was one." For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com Contributor Bio:  Authors, Various Nickolaus Pacione is the publisher behind Lake Fossil Press as he managed to bring two of his 13 issues of his magazine back to CreateSpace.com where he was getting good at doing the magazine as this was one of the first of the Royal Trade Paperbacks. Which was something that became his company's signature size when doing anthologies. He did that size with Tabloid Purposes IV, his memoir in the 2008 reboot (the new version is the original 2007 size, ) as Legend Keeper and his first book are 6 x 9 again but figuring out how to play with other sizes on CreateSpace.com as he will be doing an edition of The Iliad of Homer trying to have it appeal to those who listen to heavy metal and read horror. Go visit him on the world weird web at http: //np1976.codexed.com; he's been writing since October of 1990 as a horror author so do the math how long he's been at it. He reteamed with the Diary-X.com crew in 2011 and has done blogs linked up from his pinterest.com account. Where one can find that by punching in (napacione;) his science fiction writing period started at 27 years old just as he was turning 28 years of age as he became published on his birthday. The HWA would have none of it either so follow him publicly on his public facebook: https: //www.fb.com/napacione on his 38th birthday he had learned of the passing of one of his Tommy Gun Roster -- it was on that author's birthday Pacione was blindsided and had gone at a classmate for snubbing his roster -- then nailed The Sloping Companion's Robert Champion with his blog entry, Faustian Bargains. He refused to say anything when Pacione got plagiarized. Pacione called him a "fucking drug dealer" as he was promoting LSD usage -- Pacione looked up an article in Grabowsky's neck of the woods and pinterested both to drive it home. Pacione exposed him as he did with Sherri Parker/Hibbett. Issue 9 was not as talked about as Issue 10 or Issue 12 as Pacione will call these two his most memorable along with Issue 5 as that was a near ensemble also. Issue 12 was Ray Nelson plus the ensemble that is the rest of 12. Issue 9 Pacione will remember more for reuniting with his mates on The Writer's Post Journal as one of the contributor's was the art director on the issue. This issue was the one that published Pacione sometime before Tales of the Talisman was aware that Pacione was on the sister mag.