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unusual facts about Arabian Nights



Bertil Mårtensson

His work has in style and themes been compared by Swedish critics to those of Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Arabian Nights and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Five grains

Five grains of musk are included with Cubeb (section Uses, subsection Medicinal) in an aphrodisiac recipe in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights popularly known in English as the Arabian Nights

George John Pinwell

There are many of his compositions in Good Words, The Sunday Magazine, The Quiver and London Society, but his most important productions made for the Dalziel brothers were illustrations of Oliver Goldsmith, of Jean Ingelow's poems, * Robert Buchanan's Ballads of the Affections, and the Arabian Nights.

James Ridley

Ridley wrote two novels, The History of James Lovegrove, Esquire (1761) and The Schemer, or the Universal Satirist, by that Great Philosopher Helter van Scelter (1763); but he is mainly remembered for his Oriental pastiche Tales of the Genii, a set of stories based on those of the Arabian Nights.


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Aladdin

In pantomime versions, changes in the setting and story are often made to fit it better into "China" (albeit a China situated in the East End of London rather than Medieval Baghdad), and elements of other Arabian Nights tales (in particular Ali Baba) are often introduced into the plot.

Frances Brundage

In addition to ephemera, Brundage illustrated children's classics such as the novels of Louisa May Alcott, Johanna Spyri, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and traditional literary collections such as The Arabian Nights and the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood.

Meggie Folchart

Together with her great-aunt Elinor, Dustfinger - a fire-eater, Farid - a boy called from the book Arabian Nights, Fenoglio - the writer of Inkheart and a horned marten named Gwin, Meggie and Mo try to destroy Capricorn and his evil army.

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift.

Mumbiram

As English renderings of great eastern classics these are in the same league as Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "Arabian Nights" of Richard Francis Burton or Edwin Arnold’s "Light of Asia".

New Arabian Nights

The first volume contains seven stories originally called Later-day Arabian Nights and published by London Magazine in serial format from June to October 1878.

Sinbad the Sailor

"The Last Voyage of Sindbad" by Richard Corben and Jan Strnad originally appeared as "New Tales of the Arabian Nights" serialized in Heavy Metal (magazine) #15–28 (1978–79) and was later collected and reprinted as a trade paperback book.

The Best Disco in Town

The extended single adds the songs "Love To Love You Baby", "That's the Way (I Like It)", "Lady Bump", the group's own "Express", "Lady Marmalade", and the group's own song from the Arabian Nights album, "Romantic Love."

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Selections From The Arabian Nights, Sir Richard Burton's famous translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night, with modernised… (1938), With new illustrations and decorations by Steele Savage; Garden City, NY: De Luxe Editions Club, 400 pages.

Tricky slave

In contrast to these positive depictions, the tricky slave is portrayed as the antagonist in another Arabian Nights tale, "The Three Apples", an early example of a murder mystery.