By Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator)
Read or Download 1001 Arabian Nights - Volume 3 PDF
Best mythology & folk tales books
Do you suspect in fairytales? while wish Shepherd loses her coach whereas boarding the eight. forty two into Cardiff, Cinderella could not be farther from her recommendations. Painfully divorced, she's all out of daydreams - and it is not a pitcher slipper, in any case. it really is picked up, despite the fact that, by way of a Prince fascinating of varieties - DJ Jack Valentine, who is simply been divorced too.
The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid
This paintings offers the voices of the South African oral culture - the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers - documenting their enduring religion within the strength of the notice to maintain culture within the face of made up our minds efforts to distort or do away with it.
Stories of old Greece and Rome
Tales of previous Greece and Rome is a vintage primer on Greek and Roman mythology.
- The Face in the Frost
- American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies)
- Russian folk-tales
- Oath of the Vayuputras (The Shiva Trilogy)
Additional info for 1001 Arabian Nights - Volume 3
Example text
Kanmakan smiled and answered, "Why should I turn my back for thee? Is there no justice in thee? " Upon this Sabbah laughed and replied, "By Allah, a wonder! Thou art a boy in years told, but in talk thou art old. " Then he arose and threw down his weapon and, tucking up his skirt, drew near unto Kanmakan who also drew near and they gripped each other. But the Badawi found that the other had the better of him and weighed him down as the quintal downweighs the diner; and he looked at his legs firmly planted on the ground, and saw that they were as two minarets[FN#83] strongly based, or two tent-poles in earth encased, or two mountains which may not he displaced.
So he opened his treasuries and distributed his monies among his officers; and he prayed for Kanmakan's return, that he might draw his heart to him with fair usage and bounty; and make him commander of those troops which ceased not being faithful to him, so might he quench the sparks ere they became a flame. Now when the news of this reached Kanmakan by the merchants, he returned in haste to Baghdad on the back of the aforesaid stallion, and as King Sasan sat perplexed upon his throne he heard of the coming of Kanmakan; whereupon he despatched all the troops and head-men of the city to meet him.
The hardest hearts inclined to his side; his eyelids bore lashes black as by Kohl; and he was of surpassing worth in body and soul. ''[FN#67] Now it chanced one holiday, that Kuzia Fakan fared forth to make festival with certain kindred of the court, and she went surrounded by her handmaids. And indeed beauty encompassed her, the roses of her cheeks dealt envy to their mole; from out her smiling lips levee flashed white, gleaming like the chamomile[FN#68]; and Kanmakan began to turn about her and devour her with his sight, for she was the moon of resplendent light.