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Arabian Nights
by Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi

ISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.

The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. [via]
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The Arabian Nights
by Rene Bull

ISBN 0517619342 (0-517-61934-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Arabian Nights
by Earle Goodenow

ISBN 044806006X (0-448-06006-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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A selection of thirteen tales told by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights which enchanted the cruel sultan so much that he gave up executing his daily wives.
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Arabian Nights
by H. W. Dulcken

ISBN 089009800X (0-89009-800-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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In this superbly illustrated volume you will find dozens of wonderful stories of genies and jinns (those fantastic spirits that, according to Muslim folklore, inhabit the earth in various forms and exercise supernatural power), of magic carpets, Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, and the beautiful Scheherazade. There are classics such as 'Sinbad the Sailor', 'Aladdin' and 'The Seven Viziers', traditional stories that have given boundless pleasure down through the ages, which you too can now experience.
The wondrous illustrations are by the master Victorian artist engraver Thomas Dalziel, whose unique talent is displayed at its very best here.
This book to treasure is a rich mine of adventure to fire the imagination, a treasury of one thousand and one nights that you will want to return to again and again.
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Arabian Nights
by Jack Zipes

ISBN 0451525426 (0-451-52542-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]
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The Arabian Nights
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield Parrish

ISBN 0684195895 (0-684-19589-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman. [via]
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Arabian Nights
by Kathryn Wesley, Kensington Publishing Corporation Staff

ISBN 1575665816 (1-57566-581-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation

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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Richard Francis Burton, A. S. Byatt

ISBN 0375756752 (0-375-75675-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's lavish unexpurgated translation, this volume illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic tales. It includes a wide variety of tales--from magic fairy tales to torrid erotic tales--that reveal a great deal about what life was like in the Middle East during the Medieval period.
* The companion volume to the popular Signet Classic edition of Arabian Nights (8/91), also edited by Jack Zipes
* Jack Zipes is the author of several books of fairy tales and is the editor of the Signet Classic edition of The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde (5/96)
* These volumes offer the uncensored, erotic versions of the tales, not the rewritten fairy tales for children [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Jack David Zipes, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 061321126X (0-613-21126-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Marc Chagall, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 3791308424 (3-7913-0842-4)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub

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Arabian Nights' Entertainments
by Robert L. MacK

ISBN 0192834797 (0-19-283479-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities of his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his realm and to a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which she nightly postpones the Sultan's murderous intent have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of stories before or since. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance in Arabian Nights' Entertainments. This edition is the only one to offer the complete text of the earliest English translation, and also provides full notes and plot summaries, especially important in a such a sprawling work of great complexity. [via]
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night
by Bennett Alfred Cerf, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 0679602356 (0-679-60235-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.

The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.

This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]
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Best Selections from the Arabian Nights Entertainments
by Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, William Harvey

ISBN 0805502440 (0-8055-0244-0)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co

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The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Night
by Richard Francis Burton, Leon Carre

ISBN 2843237254 (2-84323-725-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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In the late 1920s, the art publisher H. Piazza produced a twelve-volume version of The 1001 Nights that was one of the most beautiful ever made. It included splendid illustrations by Mohammed Racim and wonderful miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Today, Assouline is publishing an abridged version of this masterpiece, which includes the most famous and most enchanting of the tales--from the story of King Shahryar, to Sinbad the sailor, to Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Aladdin and the magic lamp--all told by the beautiful and sensual Shahrazad. This wonderful book is one of the classics that will stand next to the most handsome books in your library. For The 1001 Nights is a cultural testimony of the past, the source of myths and beliefs of the East. A collection of extraordinary stories from India and Persia passed down orally and told at night in public squares, this unique work is on a par with Homer's Odyssey. [via]
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The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Maurice Hussey

ISBN 0521046238 (0-521-04623-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert W. Hanning, Peter Tuttle

ISBN 1593083122 (1-59308-312-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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The Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer, James Scott

ISBN 1580495001 (1-58049-500-1)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc

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The Canterbury Tales
by Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. Ambrus

ISBN 019278109X (0-19-278109-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Canterbury Tales
by Lumiansky

ISBN 0671491288 (0-671-49128-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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The Canterbury Tales : A Selection
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald R. Howard, James M. Dean

ISBN 0451524004 (0-451-52400-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury. [via]
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readings
by Geoffery Chaucer

ISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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NEW...NEW...NEW...Did I say New? Very New [via]
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The Canterbury Tales In Modern Verse
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Joseph Glaser

ISBN 0872207544 (0-87220-754-4)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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This daring new translation of 21 of the tales, most of them rendered in iambic tetrameter, conveys the content, tone, and narrative style of the original in a line as expressive as it is economical. An Introduction treats Chaucer's works, influences, life, learning, and the world of 14th-century London. Includes a glossary. [via]
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt

ISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc

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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN 0385098693 (0-385-09869-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer 1904
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Percy Mackaye

ISBN 0766171779 (0-7661-7177-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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The illustrious work of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, are presented herein as a modern rendering into prose of the Prologue and ten tales. The barrier of obsolete speech is the occasion for this rendering of the Canterbury Tales in English, easily intelligible today. Mr. Mackaye presents a representative portion of Chaucer's unfinished masterpiece in such a form as shall best preserve for a modern reader the substance and style of the original. Handsomely illustrated. [via]
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Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
by Steve Ellis

ISBN 0582248817 (0-582-24881-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few.

The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all.

This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN 0812000390 (0-8120-0039-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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Begun soon after 1386 and written during several years that followed, Geoffrey Chaucer's great narrative poem The Canterbury Tales presents a richly detailed, highly entertaining, and sometimes bawdy picture of English society in the fourteenth century. Rich with humorous insights into the many foibles of humanity, this poem is considered by most literary critics and scholars to be the first great example of literary art written in vernacular English. Its narrative opens as a party of 30 men and women from various walks of life gather at the Tabard Inn in London, from where they set out on a holy pilgrimage to Canterbury and its shrine dedicated to Thomas à Becket. As they travel, each person has a story to tell.

The most famous and beloved of Chaucer's stories are presented in interlinear form this intensely readable volume. Alternating each of Chaucer's original lines with its translation into modern English, this book encourages readers to savor the genius of Chaucer's original poetry while following each line with an easy-to-understand modern translation of his Southeast Midlands dialect of Middle English. This scholarly yet truly approachable translation of Chaucer's original poem is the work of Vincent F. Hopper, a longtime professor of English literature at New York University. He opens with the famous Prologue--

Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
When April with his showers sweet
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
The drought of March has pierced to the root

--and then goes on to present
The Miller's Tale
The Reeve's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Franklin's Tale . . . and more.
This fine volume also includes an enlightening introductory essay on Chaucer's art, with Professor Hopper's commentary on England as it existed in the fourteenth century. He concludes with a short list of recommended reading on Chaucer's time and his art. [via]

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Cuentos De Canterbury

by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivana Mollo

ISBN 849764803X (84-9764-803-X)
Softcover, Edimat Libros

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.

Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.

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ISBN 9780486419176 (0-486-41917-7, 0486419177)

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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

by Richard F. Burton

ISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."

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ISBN 9780521046299 (0-521-04629-7, 0521046297)

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The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing

ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]

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ISBN 9780521323314 (0-521-32331-2, 0521323312)

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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

by Winthrop Wetherbee

ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
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ISBN 9780140157376 (0-14-015737-9, 0140157379)

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0140157379 (0-14-015737-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:

So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.

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ISBN 9781567311204 (1-56731-120-2, 1567311202)

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Hero With A Thousand Faces

by Joseph Campbell

ISBN 1567311202 (1-56731-120-2)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us. [via]

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ISBN 9789875504219 (987-550-421-1, 9875504211)

Las Mil Y Una Noches

by Not Available

ISBN 9875504211 (987-550-421-1)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.

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Las Mil Y Una Noches: ISBN 9875504211 (987-550-421-1)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.

ISBN 9780395290316 (0-395-29031-7, 0395290317)

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The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson

ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]

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ISBN 9780721417592 (0-7214-1759-0, 0721417590)

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Tales from the Arabian Nights

ISBN 0721417590 (0-7214-1759-0)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd

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The fables and legends of "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", taken from the "Arabian Nights". In these two tales filled with mystery, intrigue and excitement, Aladdin and Ali Baba each make magical discoveries. [via]

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ISBN 9781853261145 (1-85326-114-9, 1853261149)

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Tales from the Arabian Nights

by C. Lang, Andrew Lang

ISBN 1853261149 (1-85326-114-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp, the Enchanted Horse, the Princess Badoura, Sinbad the Sailor, and the great Caliph of Bagdad, Haroun-al-Raschid. [via]

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ISBN 9780895773746 (0-89577-374-0, 0895773740)

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Tales from the Arabian Nights

by Edmund Dulac, C. Lang

ISBN 0895773740 (0-89577-374-0)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association

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Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, and talking birds in 26 magical tales: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Sailor," "Noureddin and the Fair Persian," "Merchant of Bagdad," and more. 66 illustrations. [via]

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Tales from the Arabian Nights Selected from the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night

by Richard Burton

ISBN 0671808036 (0-671-80803-6)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co

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Hardcover, Bookthrift Co

ISBN 9780517261842 (0-517-26184-7, 0517261847)

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Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

by David Shumaker, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 0517261847 (0-517-26184-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books

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This retelling of the magnificent tales told by Scheherazade to the King of India in order to save her life includes such magical classics as ""Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,"" ""Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp,"" and many other favorites. [via]

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ISBN 9780140442892 (0-14-044289-8, 0140442898)

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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

by N. J. Dawood

ISBN 0140442898 (0-14-044289-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam. [via]

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ISBN 9780395140529 (0-395-14052-8, 0395140528)

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The Tales of Canterbury: Complete

by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. Pratt

ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. [via]

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The Tales of Canterbury: Complete: ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
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The Thousand Nights and One Night

by E. Powys Mathers, Mardrus

ISBN 0710208693 (0-7102-0869-3)
Hardcover, Marboro Books

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ISBN 9780345396815 (0-345-39681-2, 0345396812)

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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

ISBN 0345396812 (0-345-39681-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The author is not only a Jungian analyst, but a storyteller. She is steeped in the traditions of storytelling from both the Latin and the Hungarian sides of her family, and I very much enjoyed the ways in which she uses this legacy of the storyteller as healer to make her points. I never thought of storytelling in this way before, but reading this book I found it to be true. (I feel that her stories have helped heal me.) I am a storyteller myself, of a sort, so for me the book was a kind of homecoming. If you have ever wondered why fairy tales seem so cruel and peculiar, you will find the answers in this book. Fairy tales have been mangled in the translation, but this author shows you where they came from and what they are really about. While I am a huge believer in free-market capitalism, growth, business, and civilization (as opposed to back-to-nature Green-ery), I have tremendous concerns about the increasingly violent and impersonal nature of our society. This book shows you how to cultivate a healing, loving attitude toward the world without becoming a doormat--quite the contrary, it shows how love can give you more strength and power than you'll ever find in a boardroom. [via]

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Mujeres Que Corren Con Los Lobos: Mitos Y Cuentos De LA Mujer Salvaje
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Maria Antonia Menini

ISBN 0375707530 (0-375-70753-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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"A deeply spiritual book...She honors what is tough, smart, and untamed in women. She venerates the female soul." --The Washington Post Book World

Mujeres que corren con los lobos is the first Spanish-language edition available in North America of the epoch-making Women Who Run with the Wolves. In its English-language version, this amazingly influential and luminous bestseller has touched the souls of millions of women, and men, with its exploration of what may be the most powerful of archetypes, the Wild Woman. With a unique vision and intelligence, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés tells and examines a rich intercultural mix of myths, fairy tales, and stories--familiar traditional tales, her own and those of her families' elders. She has hit a well-spring of feminine instinct, creativity, and power that washes over every woman throughout the world.

An important edition to the Vintage Español list, Mujeres que corren con los lobos is sure to be a major success in the Spanish-speaking American market. [via]
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