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Further Reading
Peter L. Caracciolo (ed.), The Arabian Nights in English Literature: Studies in the Reception of The Thousand and One Nights into British Culture, (Macmillan, London, 1988)
John Clute and John Grant (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, (Orbit, London, 1997)
Hasan M. El-Shamy, A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights, (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2006)
Husain Haddawy (tr.), The Arabian Nights, (Everyman’s Library Classics, London, 1992)
Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion, 2nd edition (I.B. Tauris, London and New York, 2004)
Robert Irwin, The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, (Penguin, London, 2006)
Ulric Marzolph and Richard van Leeuwen (eds.), The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, California, 2004)
Mia I. Gerhardt, The Art of Story-Telling: A literary study of the Thousand and One Nights, (Leiden: Brill, 1963)
David Pinault, Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights, (Leiden: Brill, 1992)
Wen-chin Ouyang & Geert Jan van Gelder (eds), New Perspectives on Arabian Nights: Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons, (London: Routledge, 2005)
Ulrich Marzolph (ed.), The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective, (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2007)
Ulrich Marzolph (ed.), The Arabian Nights Reader, (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2007) -
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Eva Sallis, Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the Thousand and One Nights, (Richmond: Curzon, 1999)
Richard van Leeuwen, The Thousand and One Nights: Space, Travel and Transformation, (London: Routledge, 2007)
Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories (1759-1777), ed. and trans. Roger Pearson (London: Penguin Classic, 2006)
William Beckford, Vathek (1786), ed. Roger Lonsdale (Oxford: Oxford World's Classic, 1998)
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (London: Puffin Books, 1990)
And the first full length animated film:
Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), BFI DVD with booklet, 2001
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