A new twist on the old magic in the tales of the Arabian Nights. Scheherazade by Léon Samoilovitch Bakst 1896. The Tales of a Thousand and One Nights – the Arabian Nights – start with a terrible ...

The Annotated Arabian Nights. Translated by Yasmine Seale. Edited by Paulo Lemos Horta. Liveright; 816 pages; $45 and £30 IT IS ONE of the world’s oldest fables, and among the most-travelled. From 8th ...

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse production of Mary Zimmerman's "The Arabian Nights" brings a storybook to life on stage with fascinating and intriguing tales. "The Arabian Nights," based on the ...

Two hundred years ago, two German philologists named Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of a collection of fairy tales that wormed their way deep into our species’ unconscious and ...

Once upon a time, fairy tales were the rage in fashionable Paris. At literary salons and at the court of Louis XIV, ladies and gentlemen beguiled one another with fantastical tales of talking animals ...

How many of the “1001 Nights” were Jewish ones? Last month marked the bicentenary of the birth of Richard F. Burton, the Victorian translator of “The Arabian Nights,” or “1001 Nights,” the medieval ...

New to 4 Extra. Last broadcast 30 years ago, Derek Jacobi stars as The King in the first of seven stories of love, magic and mystery. The Arabian Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales ...

Nearly everyone is familiar with this collection of folktales, also known as One Thousand and One Nights, and its infamous framing device: Scheherazade, the vizier’s daughter, is set to be married and ...