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The Arabian Nights

Though The Arabian Nights are generally known as stories for children, they were originally tales for adults full of adventure, sexuality, violence and the supernatural. They certainly inspired the imagination of Sir Richard Burton, the nineteenth-century explorer, linguist and erotologist who brought all his worldly experience and a superbly expressive prose style to bear on the tales of Sinbad the Seaman and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Scheherazade must keep her king entertained with stories if she is to avoid the promised sentence of death. Philip Madoc’s sonorous performance allows the tales to weave their own enchantment as they have done down the centuries.

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Running Time: 3 h 44 m

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ISBN:	978-962-634-029-5
Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-468-3
Cat. no.:	NA302912
Download size:	54 MB
BISAC:	FIC004000
Released:	January 2000

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Philip Madoc

Philip Madoc’s extensive theatre work includes the roles of Othello and Iago, Faust and Macbeth and, with the RSC, The Duke in Measure for Measure and Professor Raat in The Blue Angel. TV roles include Lloyd George, Magua in The Last of the Mohicans, Brookside and A Mind to Kill. He reads The Death of Arthur, Canterbury Tales I and the part of Host in Canterbury Tales II, Arabian Nights, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Old Testament, Romeo and Juliet and The Essential Dylan Thomas for Naxos AudioBooks.

Titles read by Philip Madoc

Titles read by Philip Madoc: The Arabian Nights (abridged); The Canterbury Tales II (unabridged); The Canterbury Tales III (unabridged); The Canterbury Tales (unabridged); The Death of Arthur (Le Morte d’Arthur) (abridged); The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Part 1 (abridged); The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Part 2 (abridged); The Essential Dylan Thomas (unabridged); A Family Christmas (unabridged); The General Prologue & The Physician’s Tale (unabridged); The Moon of Gomrath (unabridged); The Old Testament (selections); Poems of the Orient (selections); Romeo and Juliet (unabridged); Samson Agonistes (unabridged); The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (unabridged)

Sir Richard Burton

The Arabian Nights

Read by Philip Madoc

abridged

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