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The Arabian Nights
- Narrated by: Suehyla El Attar
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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The Arabian Nights
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Publisher's Summary
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Scheherazade, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Scheherazade always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.
Editorial reviews
The Arabian Nights assembles tales from centuries of Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures in an enchanting collection whose varied characters, storylines, and methods of describing them have influenced modern genres as diverse as fantasy, science fiction, and detective fiction. The collection employs the frame tale of a woman staving off her execution by telling stories that leave her husband, the sultan, in such suspense that he continuously postpones the sentence. Suehyla El Attar embodies Scheherazade, performing the collection with a feminine wile, as well as enthusiastically voicing the gruff beasts and powerful heroes like Aladdin, Ali Ba Ba, and Sinbad the Sailor who make this audiobook such an intoxicating stimulant to the imagination.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Natalia
- 09-07-2022
Nice collection of short stories but neglects the underlying concept of the purpose of Scheherazade’s narration
Whilst there are a decent amount of short stories in this collection. These seem to just follow each other one after the other.
The initial story, or the framing story of the Sultan Shahryār and Scheherazade aren’t really woven amongst the stories and seems to have only been used at the beginning of the audiobook to “set the scene” but could have been woven throughout the audiobook to re establish some context.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- pw
- 12-05-2023
Horrible, violent towards women
The book begins with a sultan killing his wife because she was dishonorable and that was the law, then killing other women because he hated women in general. No wonder the people there still practice horrible cruelty toward women and girls.
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