The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights

"[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers-prose, rhymed prose, poetry-and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully." -Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker