The Arabian Ninhts 一千零一夜 内容简介

在古代一个阿拉伯岛国中,国王杀死了不忠的王后,之后每娶一位女子,次日便马她杀掉。宰相女儿哈拉查德聪慧过人,为挽救众多女子的生命,毅然嫁给国王。每晚给国王讲故事,至精彩处都停下来,留到次日再讲。国王为听完精彩的故事只好留下她。渐渐地,国王被故事感到,终与舍哈拉查德白头揩老。收信了舍哈拉查德讲述的缠绵悱恻的爱情故事、惊险揧的历险故事、扣人心弦的斗智故事等。故事曲折离奇、绚丽多彩、充满了任意驰骋的想象和对美好生活的向往。

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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleepswith a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end thisbrutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, richesand wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes andhunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of thevoyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of fortythieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequenceof stories will last 1,001 nights.

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作者简介: Richard Burton(1821-1890), was an English explorer, translator, writer, linguist and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Ai'rica as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
Burton's best-known achievements include traveling in disguise to Mecca, making an unexpurgated translation of the book ot' One Thousand Nights and a Night(the collection is more commonly called TheArabian Nights in English because of Andrew Lang's abridgment)and the Kama Sutra and journeying with John Harming Speke as the first white men guided by the redoubtable Sidi Mubarak Bombay to discover(for himself and his contemporaries)the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile. He was a prolific author and wrote numerous books and scholarly articles about subjects including travel, fencing and ethnography.