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3.62 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
The Arabian Nights is a collection of stories from the Middle East. It is one of the most beloved collection of stories ever told.
I read this when I was ten and I find the verse just as beautiful as ever. There's a lot of fables you've never heard of...filler stories and just so stories as it were. But nothing beats the original tales of Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba...these are just archetypal stories told with vivid wonder. An excellent translation that holds up well today.
From BBC Radio 4 - Drama:
The immortal stories of The Arabian Nights are brought to life in an inventive new adaptation by Glen Neath, reviving favourites such as Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves and The Fisherman and The Demon along with lesser known tales.
This is a world of wonder, magic and comedy - but also of contemporary realism. Successive generations in the east and the west have reinterpreted these tales, recognising the inept rulers, the resourceful slaves and the wondrous magicians. That's why this is one of the most enduring and influential books in literature.
In this first of two parts, we join Ata Madri (Indira Varma) as she heads to modern day Cairo to track down an elusive medieval copy of The Nights - one that is said to contain the original ending. A sea of stories awaits her.
Ata Madri (Indira Varma) is in Cairo attempting to retrieve a lost manuscript of The Arabian Nights that is said to contain the real ending of the book. As we follow her search we slip into this sea of stories.
The Hunchback Cycle is told in this episode, including the story of The Barber (Alexei Sayle) and his brothers, as well as lesser known stories.
These tales of wonder and imagination have beguiled both east and west over generations and remain as seminal and influential as ever. Here, the stories are told in a rich world of sound by an ensemble of actors from around the world.
Sound design by Alisdair McGregor
Music by Michael Ward with David Lewin and Peter Rophone
Directed by Boz Temple-Morris
A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r1b2h
The immortal stories of The Arabian Nights are brought to life in an inventive new adaptation by Glen Neath, reviving favourites such as Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves and The Fisherman and The Demon along with lesser known tales.
This is a world of wonder, magic and comedy - but also of contemporary realism. Successive generations in the east and the west have reinterpreted these tales, recognising the inept rulers, the resourceful slaves and the wondrous magicians. That's why this is one of the most enduring and influential books in literature.
In this first of two parts, we join Ata Madri (Indira Varma) as she heads to modern day Cairo to track down an elusive medieval copy of The Nights - one that is said to contain the original ending. A sea of stories awaits her.
Ata Madri (Indira Varma) is in Cairo attempting to retrieve a lost manuscript of The Arabian Nights that is said to contain the real ending of the book. As we follow her search we slip into this sea of stories.
The Hunchback Cycle is told in this episode, including the story of The Barber (Alexei Sayle) and his brothers, as well as lesser known stories.
These tales of wonder and imagination have beguiled both east and west over generations and remain as seminal and influential as ever. Here, the stories are told in a rich world of sound by an ensemble of actors from around the world.
Sound design by Alisdair McGregor
Music by Michael Ward with David Lewin and Peter Rophone
Directed by Boz Temple-Morris
A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r1b2h
The Arabian Nights Entertainments contains 33 short stories related to the famous 1001 nights, selected and edited by [a:Andrew Lang|18393|Andrew Lang|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1226677754p2/18393.jpg]. I quite enjoyed his breezy editing which left no room for boredom. The stories are mostly folklore of the medieval Islamic era, with hints to ancient pre-Islamic history, mostly in Arab lands, Persia, and all the way reaching to China.
I won't elaborate and review the stories, but I must pay my respects to the badass Scheherazade aka شهرزاد in Arabic/Persian. She's the ultimate mistress of all female procrastinators with her wicked scheme, outsmarting the scumbag Schahriar aka شهريار in Arabic/Persian.
Out of the blue, Schahriar's wife had cheated on him which drove him crayzaay. Driven by his broken heart and lost mind, and thanks to his authoritative rank as the Sultan, he decided to erase the female human kind from his society, not only by a single genocide, he's a man after all and a man has needs to satisfy. So, he had the habit of marrying a new virgin every night then having her beheaded the next morning.
A girl must step out to end this bullshit. Here comes the grand-vizir's daughter; witty bibliophile Scheherazade. She volunteered to be wedded to the merciless Sultan. Instead of lying on his bed waiting for her inevitable fate, she charms him with a trail of fascinating stories. She kept procrastinating her storytelling, tale followed by another. He couldn't get enough of her enchanting stories every night and eventually resolved to keep her head attached to her body.
Morals of the story:
- Procrastination is the answer.
- You can escape the inevitable fate of death if you read books.
- Even the cruelest men can be manipulated if you knew your true girl-power.
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Recommended to everyone. Many bewildering stories of genii, wizards and witches, princes and princesses, magical powers, monstrous animals, Sindbad the Sailor and his adventures with one-eyed-giants and red-hairy-imps, Aladdin and his famous Lamp, and more...
I won't elaborate and review the stories, but I must pay my respects to the badass Scheherazade aka شهرزاد in Arabic/Persian. She's the ultimate mistress of all female procrastinators with her wicked scheme, outsmarting the scumbag Schahriar aka شهريار in Arabic/Persian.
Out of the blue, Schahriar's wife had cheated on him which drove him crayzaay. Driven by his broken heart and lost mind, and thanks to his authoritative rank as the Sultan, he decided to erase the female human kind from his society, not only by a single genocide, he's a man after all and a man has needs to satisfy. So, he had the habit of marrying a new virgin every night then having her beheaded the next morning.
A girl must step out to end this bullshit. Here comes the grand-vizir's daughter; witty bibliophile Scheherazade. She volunteered to be wedded to the merciless Sultan. Instead of lying on his bed waiting for her inevitable fate, she charms him with a trail of fascinating stories. She kept procrastinating her storytelling, tale followed by another. He couldn't get enough of her enchanting stories every night and eventually resolved to keep her head attached to her body.
Morals of the story:
- Procrastination is the answer.
- You can escape the inevitable fate of death if you read books.
- Even the cruelest men can be manipulated if you knew your true girl-power.
__________
Recommended to everyone. Many bewildering stories of genii, wizards and witches, princes and princesses, magical powers, monstrous animals, Sindbad the Sailor and his adventures with one-eyed-giants and red-hairy-imps, Aladdin and his famous Lamp, and more...