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Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by riffraff »

adrian_b wrote: post #34
riffraff wrote: post #12

> Many of the well-known modern stories, like that of Aladdin, have the more prurient elements removed or are stories that were added much later. I wonder about the "prurient" bits? Anyone perused this version and can share what this is about? I am quite curious to see if the version I read in my own language also has the same censoring.

In the original there were frequent occurrences of the names of various anatomical parts or of various acts that are considered taboo now. Also there were many explicit descriptions of love scenes, even if a poetic language was used for them. Of the old translations, only the French translation of Mardrus and the uncensored variant of Burton were somewhat close to the original text. Even the "uncensored" variant of B…

interesting, thanks.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by 0-_-0 »

robin_reala wrote: post #35
0-_-0 wrote: post #26

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Did you produce the Edgar Allan Poe Short Fiction collection? I'm reading it right now, it's great! And huge! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

Yep! Glad you’re enjoying it. Here are my share of the SE productions: https://www.robinwhittleton.com/books/ Biggest so far (and biggest on SE at 1.2m words) has been Samuel Pepys’ Diary: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-pepys/the-diary

Thank you for your efforts!

That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by skytreader »

emanueldima wrote: post #15
skytreader wrote: post #6

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Technically, Project Gutenberg blocks Germany. Anyway this also surprised me last year! Protip: Main PG is blocking DE IPs but mirrors aren't. Unfortunately, [mirrors]( https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/81t0ad/project_guten... ) don't have the convenient search infra, just the texts. If you can get the ID somehow, then you can navigate to the text in question. Maybe I missed a more convenient mirror. In which c…

https://www.gitenberg.org

Cooool! Exactly what I'm looking for. Actually think I've heard of this before (I follow one of the GH contributors) but realized, just now, it's the mirror I am looking for. Thanks!

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by robin_reala »

0-_-0 wrote: post #42
robin_reala wrote: post #35

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Yep! Glad you’re enjoying it. Here are my share of the SE productions: https://www.robinwhittleton.com/books/ Biggest so far (and biggest on SE at 1.2m words) has been Samuel Pepys’ Diary: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-pepys/the-diary

Thank you for your efforts! That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?

Nearly two years, but I took a bunch of time out to work on smaller pieces. The biggest problem was that Gutenberg had only transcribed about a third of the footnotes, so I spent a long time adding the remaining ones back in.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by 0-_-0 »

robin_reala wrote: post #45
0-_-0 wrote: post #42

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Thank you for your efforts! That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?

Nearly two years, but I took a bunch of time out to work on smaller pieces. The biggest problem was that Gutenberg had only transcribed about a third of the footnotes, so I spent a long time adding the remaining ones back in.

So you were transcribing a diary written in a shorthand? Or from a print version?

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by natemcintosh »

I would highly recommend the musical interpretation by Rimsky-Korsakov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade_(Rimsky-Korsakov). The violin soloist as Scheherazade leads the Sultan through the stories. See the Overview section of the wikipedia page for her theme, and his theme. It's a piece I always love to come back to.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by jfk13 »

robin_reala wrote: post #45
0-_-0 wrote: post #42

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Thank you for your efforts! That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?

Nearly two years, but I took a bunch of time out to work on smaller pieces. The biggest problem was that Gutenberg had only transcribed about a third of the footnotes, so I spent a long time adding the remaining ones back in.

Great work! Is there any link between this and the Pepys Diary site at https://www.pepysdiary.com (also an awesome resource)?

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by robin_reala »

0-_-0 wrote: post #46
robin_reala wrote: post #45

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Nearly two years, but I took a bunch of time out to work on smaller pieces. The biggest problem was that Gutenberg had only transcribed about a third of the footnotes, so I spent a long time adding the remaining ones back in.

So you were transcribing a diary written in a shorthand? Or from a print version?

From scanned original sources. I just opened a random page at archive.org to give you an example:

https://archive.org/details/diaryofsamuelpep01pepy/page/228/...

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