Thousand and One Nights. Arab tales

“A thousand and one night” - a collection of fairy tales, stories and stories, the collective creator of which is the entire Arab people. There are fairy tales about the jeans, magic lamps and carpets-sarckers, and sea trips, and even “detective” stories. But they are interesting not only with exciting stories. They describe the details of the city life of the Arab East, the customs of its inhabitants, information from various historical and geographical works. And most importantly, the subtle eastern wisdom lies behind all this.

The English writer Gilbert Kit Chesterton said about “thousands and one night”: “The infinity of fairy tales is nothing more than an endless desire to enjoy the earthly life.” Indeed, it is precisely in the enjoyment of earthly being, in the rapture of the innumerable manifestations of the vitality of man and nature, and the eternal charm of fairy stories is that more than one generation of readers of this beautiful book captivate. The classic retelling of the famous translator, orientalist Mikhail Alexandrovich Salier (1899-1961).

for secondary school age.