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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

by: Anonymous

Publication date: 2008-06-30

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, audiobook, English, Arabian, myths, Alladin, Ali Baba, Sinbad, 1001

Language: English

LibriVox recording of "The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01", by Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott.

The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Scheherazade agrees to marry him and each night, beginning on the night of their marriage, she tells the king a tale but does not end it so that the king keeps her alive in order to hear the next tale.

The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred tales, while others include 1001 or more stories and "nights."
Well known stories from the Nights include Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. (Summary from Wikipedia)

This edition is a translation by Dr. Jonathan Scott.

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Reviewer: Carly Corday - - June 5, 2018
Subject: Wonderfully Addictive! BUT!

The shockingly awful ending of The Story of Amene is enough to make me retract every good thing I had to say about these stories up till that point. The entire Story of Amene crosses the line for sickening even for tales of this sort created in this time-period. The only possible redemption for a story of such hatefulness and horror would have been worthy revenge upon the unmanly (said the Caliph wisely!), monstrous perp, the worst sentient creature ever written about who (presumably) wasn't a serial torture-killer. We're led in these stories to COUNT on comeuppance, so why, I wonder, did "Anonymous" toss in this careless, cruel ending to this one story (thus far), and triple the abomination by setting it down in glowing terms that declare it Wise and Just and Good?

Any reader, listen to the stories leading up to Amene's, read her story, and see if you don't agree.

(I often forget we are LISTENING, not reading; that's how wonderful LibriVox audiobooks are. To READ these stories, or check for clarification of words that were muffled or strange, archive.org provides the WRITTEN material too, oftentimes thanks to The Gutenberg Project.)

The Story of the Second Calender, preceding The Story of Amene, was cruel and short on Justice too, its self-forgiving hero not much of a prince, but the ending at least wasn't an out-and-out sh*t sandwich like The Story of Amene. Yep, I hated that story that much.

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