The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10


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(3.7 stars; 5 reviews)

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the tenth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. (10 hr 42 min)

Chapitres

Night 990 9:16 Lu par Josh Kibbey
Night 991 10:11 Lu par Mark Ernest
Night 992 11:47 Lu par Mark Ernest
Night 993 12:18 Lu par Mark Ernest
Night 994 11:40 Lu par Mike Golczynski
Night 995 8:57 Lu par Mike Golczynski
Night 996 10:34 Lu par Mike Golczynski
Night 997 8:31 Lu par endlessriver
Night 998 9:36 Lu par endlessriver
Night 999 8:57 Lu par endlessriver
Night 1000 9:48 Lu par endlessriver
Night 1001 8:08 Lu par Foon
Conclusion 22:15 Lu par Foon
Terminal Essay - Preliminary 7:04 Lu par Safa Ghnaim
The Origin of the Nights - A - The Birth Place 25:31 Lu par Safa Ghnaim
The Origin of the Nights - B - The Date 26:24 Lu par TriciaG
The Origin of the Nights - C 5:34 Lu par Paul Mazumdar
The Nights in Europe 41:03 Lu par Paul Mazumdar
The Matter of the Nights, part 1 28:52 Lu par Kristine Bekere
The Matter of the Nights, part 2 33:36 Lu par Foon
The Matter of the Nights, part 3 35:37 Lu par Foon
The Manner of the Nights 20:54 Lu par Amelia Chesley
Social Condition - A - Al-Islam 37:44 Lu par Jeff Burke
Social Condition - B - Woman 22:48 Lu par TriciaG
Social Condition - C - Pornography 5:32 Lu par TriciaG
Social Condition - D - Pederasty, part 1 36:00 Lu par Elsie Selwyn
Social Condition - D - Pederasty, part 2 30:36 Lu par Elsie Selwyn
Social Condition - D - Pederasty, part 3 29:43 Lu par Elsie Selwyn
On the Prose-Rhyme and the Poetry of the Nights - A - The Saj'a 5:38 Lu par Foon
On the Prose-Rhyme and the Poetry of the Nights - B - The Verse, part 1 34:46 Lu par Foon
On the Prose-Rhyme and the Poetry of the Nights - B - The Verse, part 2 39:43 Lu par Foon
On the Prose-Rhyme and the Poetry of the Nights - B - The Verse, part 3 28:37 Lu par Foon
L'Envoy 4:53 Lu par Foon

Critiques

good stories. end of book. explanation given, hard to follow


(3.5 stars)

I've spent months getting through all 10 volumes. I don't know what I expected when I started listening, but it wasn't this. I appreciate all involved for giving us this material in is entirety. The readers delivered every word dutifully. the content can be shocking at the best of times. But it is a subjects of history. even though we find it abhorrent now. The author obviously respected the collection and didn't seem to want anything left out. He goes, in this last volume, to explain about the history. Trying to get a simple answer about the origins of "the nights" is not possible. I would have been happier with more info on the go, instead of all at once. Sadly it was impossible to follow what he was even saying. When I was clear on what he was explaining it was interesting. The stories were just crazy. I never heard many like them. They often don't go how you expect and when you finally get a read on them, you get one that just keeps you wondering where they were going with it . I didn't