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This edition is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, specially designed for this book.The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride. He is shocked to discover that his brother''s wife is unfaithful; discovering his own wife''s infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her executed: but in his bitterness and grief decides that all women are the same. The king, Shahryar, begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonour him. Eventually the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade, the vizier''s daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again. So it goes on for 1,001 nights.
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Engelska, 201177 kr
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This edition of Lang''s classic is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, originaly designed for this book.Andrew Lang''s Fairy Books — also known as Andrew Lang''s "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang''s Fairy Books of Many Colors — are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally — with the notable exception of Madame d''Aulnoy — made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang''s life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write...