The Arabian Nights´ Entertainments
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Arabian Nights´ Entertainments: Edited, With Notes and an Intruduction "The Arabian Night´s Entertainments" was first made known to Europe by a French Oriental scholar, Antoine Galland. His translation, in twelve volumes, was published at intervals between the years 1704 and 1717. M. Galland´s readers had hitherto never met with anything like these stories. Their appearance, therefore, was a surprise and a revelation, and the translator´s statement that the originals were the work of an unknown Arabian author was at the time thought to be a hoax. Such pretences were common among the writers of the day, and books were now and then brought out in which the real author did not allow his name to appear at all. Usually, however, when the author chose to masquerade, he let the public infer that he was merely the editor of the work, and he supplied a preface, in which he told something about the fictitious author and vouched for his good character and truthfulness. If the story was to be particularly outlandish and unbelievable, the more elaborate and emphatic were the encomiums to the pretended writer. Famous examples of this sort of proceeding are to be found in "Robinson Crusoe," published in 1819, and in "Gulliver´s Travels," which followed a few years later. Both were introduced to the public as the narratives of plain seamen. Another notable instance is "Don Quixote," which Cervantes saw fit to palm off with much mystery as the work of some Eastern sage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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