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The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, collected by Andrew Lang

This tale is drawn from Andrew Lang's English rendering of The Arabian Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories compiled over many centuries. Lang's version, published in the late nineteenth century, brought these tales to a wide English-speaking audience. The story reflects its era in its treatment of authority, marriage, and the supernatural, and a few period terms have been modernised. The tale is worth reading for its intricate plot, its exploration of patience and fidelity under trial, and its vision of a world in which the seen and unseen realms touch and transform one another. It is a story of separation and reunion, of love tested by providence and mischance, and of the ways in which human longing and divine caprice can conspire to bring about a happy ending.

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Red · Complex language and analysisTypical starting range: ages 15–17

Length

long · about 1403 words in 5 sections · 2 pictures

Source

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Andrew Lang

First published

see the About page in the reader

Regions

Canada · United States

Included formats

• · Web reader and PDF
• · EPUB for e-readers
• · Home-print sheet
• · Folded booklet
• · Binder edition (8.5 × 11)
• · Worksheet
• · Quick Check (10 questions) with answer key
• · Read-aloud script
• · Teacher’s Edition (members)

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