New Arabian Nights [Paperback]

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 160589494X | ISBN-13: 978-1605894942 | Publication Date: October 21, 2008

New Arabian Nights is a book written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, New Arabian Nights is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Robert Louis Stevenson is highly recommended. Published by Quill Pen Classics and beautifully produced, New Arabian Nights would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

Product Details

• Paperback: 281 pages
• Publisher: Quill Pen Classics (October 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160589494X
• ISBN-13: 978-1605894942
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,484,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor publishing quality hinders good reading experience, April 21, 2001

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Mycroft Eloi (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Arabian Nights (Paperback)

This is not a review of the content of the book, rather I'd like to comment on the publishing quality. This book is an "instabook", which I assume to mean that it is printed after it is ordered. There doesn't seem to be any mention of this on the book description page on Amazon. The results of this "instabook" printing are as follows: low quality paper cover and pages; sloppy cut on the exposed edges of the book; numerous typos - averaging 1 per 1.5 pages; misalignment of paragraphs sometimes cutting words in half. All this would be acceptable if the intent of this book and others like it was to deliver classic books at a very affordable price. But! for [the price] it is a complete RIPOFF!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not really the new Arabian Nights, but a fine substitute, April 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: New Arabian Nights (Paperback)

At the heart of the book are the six (or two, depending on how you count) stories about Prince Florizel ... these stories if any capture something of what "The Arabian Nights" would have been if it had been written in the nineteenth century. The central character is an impossibly noble and high-minded Prince Florizel, who the author appears to believe in with the utmost seriousness - at least until the very end. They tend to begin with a mystery so intriguing that it doesn't even matter if the solution is less brilliant than we would have thought. "Ruritanian romance" is the best description. Ruritania itself is not so Ruritanian as this.

The non-Florizel stories are none of them favourites of mine - which is merely to say that I don't rank them up there with, say, "The Bottle Imp". All of Stevenson's short fiction is worth reading.