书名：The Arabian Nights,Volume II一千零一夜/天方夜谭 第2卷
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1320L
作者：Richard Francis Burton
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531483
商品尺寸：10.6 x2.8x 17.3cm
包装：简装
页数：448 （以实物为准）

The Arabian Nights《一千零一夜》，在西方被称为《阿拉伯之夜》，在中国却有一个独特的称呼：《天方夜谭》。“天方”是中国古代对阿拉伯的称呼，仅凭这名字，就足以把人带到神秘的异域世界中。它是世界上非常具生命力、极负盛名，拥有无数读者和影响力很大的作品之一。同时，它以民间文学的朴素身份却能跻身于世界古典名著之列，也堪称是世界文学史上的一大奇迹。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由英国翻译家Richard Francis Burton翻译，Jack Zipes改写，John Barth作序。
The Arabian Nights《一千零一夜》以离奇多变的题材，洒脱的艺术手法和神幻莫测的东方色彩，生动描绘了阿拉伯帝国的社会生活，从各个时期，不同角度反映了人民的思想感情、生活方式、风土人情和社会制度。故事形式丰富，主题多样，有格言、谚语、寓言、童话，还有揭露封建统治阶级和描写人民群众反抗斗争的故事，神话传说和神魔故事，描写婚姻恋爱的故事，描写航海冒险的故事，反映宗教问题的故事，表现古代劳动人民智慧的故事、道德教训故事等。情节诡谲怪异，神幻莫测，优美动人，扣动着世界各国读者的心，焕发出经久不衰的魅力。

Volume two in a collection of tales representing distinctive genres—from fairy tales to erotica—revealing the customs and societies in the medieval Middle East, as told by the mythic Sheherazade.
YOU WISH SOME NIGHTS WOULD NEVER END…
Thismoderneditionfrom SirRichard F. Burton’s lavish unexpurgated translation—and the companion volume to the highlypopularSignet Classics edition ofArabian Nights: Volume I, also edited and adapted by Jack Zipes—once again illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original tales. This volume includes a wide variety of fictions representing distinctive genres—not just magic fairy tales, but also erotic stories, all of which reveal a great deal about the customs and societies of the Middle East the Medieval era.
Here are tales such as“the Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad,”“The Caliph’s Night Adventure,”“The Sleeper and the Walker,”“The Woman Who Made Her Husband Sift Dirt,”“The Rake’s Trick Against the Chaste Wife,”and“The Man Who Never Laughed During the Rest of His Days.”In Jack Zipes’s hands, these stories within stories, told over the course of a thousand and one nights, come to vivid life in new and often surprising ways.
Adapted and with an Afterword by Jack Zipes and with a NewIntroductionby John Barth

The Arabian Nights《一千零一夜》是阿拉伯民间故事集，又名《天方夜谭》。相传古代印度与中国之间有一萨桑国，国王山鲁亚尔生性残暴嫉妒，因王后行为不端，将其杀死，此后每日娶一少女，翌日晨即杀掉，以示报复。宰相的女儿山鲁佐德为拯救无辜的女子，自愿嫁给国王，用讲述故事方法吸引国王，每夜讲到精彩处，天刚好亮了，使国王爱不忍杀，允她下一夜继续讲。她的故事一直讲了一千零一夜，国王终于被感动，与她白首偕老。因其内容丰富，规模宏大，故被高尔基誉为世界民间文学史上“非常壮丽的一座纪念碑”。
Upon learning of his queen’s infidelity, proud King Shahryar has her killed. As revenge on womankind, he decides to wed a different virgin every night, only to have her beheaded at dawn. Such is Shahryar’s practice for three terrible years—until he weds Scheherazade, the maiden who will change his life…
A breathtaking beauty, Scheherazade is as learned as she is sensuous. Her first night with the king, she uses her imagination, her eloquence, and more than a little cunning to regale him with a tale of genies and wishes, wisely cutting the story short at dawn. The king is so beguiled, he cannot have her murdered without hearing the story’s end. From then on, Scheherazade spends nights conjuring stories of flying carpets and fantastical journeys, always stopping with a cliff-hanger—and saving her own life—with tales about Sinbad, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Aladdin, and many others.

Sir Richard Francis Burton(1821-1890) was an renown British explorer, writer, translator, and linguist who is best known for his travels within Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Of his many achievements, one of his most recognizable contributions is a translation ofOne Thousand and One Nights, also commonly known asThe Arabian Nights.
Jack Zipesis a professor of German at the University of Minnesota. The author of several books on fairy tales, includingDon’t Bet on the Prince, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, andBreaking the Magic Spell, he is the editor and translator ofThe Complete Tales of the Brothers Grimmand the editor of Signet Classics’sThe Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.