This edition has brought together all the core tales - such as 'The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor', 'The Hunchback's Tale' and 'The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad' - and the most famous 'orphan' tales (such as 'Aladdin' and 'Ali Baba') together with a selection of stories taken from editions produced in Calcutta and Egypt in the early 19th century, many of which were not included in previous editions.
Editor Biography: Wen-chin Ouyang is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London. Her published books include Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture and Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel. She has also written widely on the Arabian Nights. Born in Taiwan and raised in Libya, she is a native speaker of both Arabic and Chinese.
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