The Arabian Nights

Name: The Arabian Nights
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN: 9781518969317

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: Johan F Girado

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 10/16/2017

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Action & Adventure, Cultural Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Bedtime Stories, Classic Children's Stories, Fairy Tales, Fantasy Stories, Interactive Adventures, Regional Stories

Synopsis

They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are delightful, fascinating, and fun for fans and first-time readers alike.

About Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max Müller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carly on February 11, 2023

The stories are familiar and new at the same time. I wish I had heard an unabridged version. This one only has four stories.......more

Goodreads review by Kara on October 08, 2020

Excellent first version to introduce younger readers to the 1,001 Nights with a good retelling of the frame story and four of the tales, appropriate for a younger pre-teen audience.......more

Goodreads review by Krystl on October 17, 2013

I loved hearing Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, how cool that the hero was a woman, I wasn't aware of that. And for being smart, no less. Now that's a story I could see making a good retelling...Unlike Sinbad, who was just randomly lucky. And dumb. Can you tell that Sinbad was my least favorite story o......more

Goodreads review by Ahauntedsoul on August 28, 2011

These amazing stories I read since I was a little kid in my native language, and I loved every pieces of it. And now as an adult, reread them again in English brought back great memories. They are as joyful and excitement to read the same as ever were. These would be great stories for the children w......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on October 27, 2013

I loved listening to the stories of the Arabian Nights. I had heard of them but had never read them. Toby Stephens, who has a wonderful voice, brings the stories to life and left me wanting more. You may have heard of some of the tales but never knew this was where they came from. Listen and see wha......more