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![]() | The Arabian Nights (1909) Their Best-known Tales An anthology of stories edited by Nora A Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin |
This elegant edition of 10 classic tales of The Arabian Nights features a powerful introduction by Mark Helprin, offering new insight into the "thousand mercurial forms" and "inexact nature" of these Eastern tales. Helprin probes for fresh understanding of our culture's deep engagement with these fantastical imaginings which, after being passed along orally for thousands of years, evolved into what we have come to know as The Arabian Nights. Accompanied by 12 full-color Maxfield Parrish illustrations from the 1909 edition, the wondrous narrative that began in what is now the Middle East and spread outward to encompass the globe is here reborn in an edition expertly translated by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. The stories here include Aladdin which tells of an aimless street urchin who is seduced by the wiles of a magician and finds himself trapped in a cave filled with sumptuous jewels, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in which a poor man discovers the secret lair of a band of looters, and The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water the story of two princes and a princess who are stolen from their parents at birth and raised by a kindly gardener.
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Hardback Editions
August 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith ISBN: 0-554-37679-2 / 978-0-554-37679-0 (USA edition) Publisher: BiblioLife Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith ISBN: 0-554-28376-X / 978-0-554-28376-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Bastian Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1996 : Hardback
| Title: Arabian Nights Their Best Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin Publisher: BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 1993 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith ISBN: 0-684-19588-7 / 978-0-684-19588-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1993 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield Parrish ISBN: 0-684-19589-5 / 978-0-684-19589-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Atheneum Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1946 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights : Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (editors). Illustrated By Maxfield Parrish Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1945 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights; Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith (editors) Illustrator - Maxfield Parrish Publisher: Charles Scribner Availability: Amazon More details... |
1942 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Their Best Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas and Smith, Nora A. Wiggin Publisher: Scribner's Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1941 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
1937 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1936 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin Publisher: Scribner's Availability: Amazon CA More details... |
1933 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
1929 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin and Maxfield Parrish Publisher: CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1925 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Wiggin Kate Douglas Publisher: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd. 1925 Availability: Amazon More details... |
1921 : Hardback
| Title: THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, THEIR BEST-KNOWN TALES Author(s): Kate Douglas and Smith, Nora A. (edited by) Wiggin Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1919 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (editors). Illustrated By Maxfield Parrish Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
1912 : Hardback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas; Smith, Nora A. (editors) Wiggin Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
September 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin ISBN: 1-145-58988-X / 978-1-145-58988-9 Publisher: Unknown Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (Classic Reprint) Author(s): Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin ISBN: 1-4400-3556-3 / 978-1-4400-3556-2 Publisher: Forgotten Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Nora A. Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin ISBN: 1-4346-5250-5 / 978-1-4346-5250-8 Publisher: BiblioBazaar Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith ISBN: 1-4346-5249-1 / 978-1-4346-5249-2 Publisher: BiblioBazaar Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin ISBN: 0-554-07254-8 / 978-0-554-07254-8 (USA edition) Publisher: BiblioBazaar Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin ISBN: 0-554-17958-X / 978-0-554-17958-2 (USA edition) Publisher: BiblioBazaar Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 1996 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin, Maxfield Parrish ISBN: 0-9652312-3-2 / 978-0-9652312-3-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Book-of-the-Month Club Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 1974 : Paperback
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (The Scribner Illustrated Classics) Author(s): Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith ISBN: 0-684-13809-3 / 978-0-684-13809-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
July 2000 : MP3 CD
| Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): ISBN: 0-7861-9563-0 / 978-0-7861-9563-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
December 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Arabian Nights(Annotated) Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin Publisher: Amazon.com Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2009 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Arabian Nights-Their Best Known Tales Author(s): Nora A. Smith Publisher: Evergreen Review, Inc. Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1930 : Unknown
| Title: The Arabian Nights, Their Best-Known Tales Author(s): Kate Douglas and Nora A. Smith, editors Wiggin Publisher: Scribners Availability: Amazon More details... |
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