Aladdin : a new translation / translated by Yasmine Seale ; edited by Paulo Lemos Horta.
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018?]Description: xxii, 118 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781631495168
- Aladdin. English. 2018.
- 398.220956 23
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Translation based on the Aladdin stories in Antoine Galland's Les Mille et une nuits.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118).
"A poor tailor's lazy son finds a magic lamp and uses it to win the hand of a beautiful princess.
Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination-and occasionally dark themes-now comes to vibrant new life. "In the capital of one of China's vast and wealthy kingdoms", begins Shahrazad, there lived Aladdin, a rebellious fifteen-year-old who falls prey to a double-crossing sorcerer and is ultimately saved by a princess." - Copac
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