Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


10 May 1995 13:09:34 GMT

Phil Goetz <goetz@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> Has anybody here actually read the [Arabian Nights]? It has 1001
> stories in it! It's, like, 10 volumes!

You could read a shorter translation. Sir Richard Burton's version is
enormous, but the Mardrus & Mathers translation is only four volumes.
And there aren't 1001 stories, there are 1001 *nights*; the longer
stories take Sharazad (aka Scheherezade) some weeks to tell.

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Gareth Rees