Arabian Nights (Adaptation)
Illustrator:
Vera Bock
Andrew Lang
Foreword:
Mary Gould Davis
Publication:
1946 by David McKay Company
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, World Cultures
Series:
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
Pages:
303
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It is said of Antoine Galland, who brought the Arabian Nights early to the Western world, that eager students woke him in the middle of the night by throwing stones at his window and crying: "Tell one more! Just one more!" Almost half a century ago Andrew Lang's The Arabian Nights' Entertainments was first published, and since that time thousands of boys and girls in England, Canada and the United States have read and been enchanted by the tales.
In this new edition a few new stories have been added, some old ones omitted, according to the decision of an impartial jury of children's librarians and the boys and girls themselves. The format of the book has been changed to conform in a pleasing manner to modern ideas of type and spacing.
Vera Bock's illustrations—so lovely and skillful that they seem to share Scheherazade's own magic—will inevitably add to the appeal of the book for young readers.
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Podcast
Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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