Title: Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights
Title Record # 1667374
Author: Laurence Housman
Date: 1913-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Princess Badoura
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English
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Author: Laurence Housman
Date: 1913-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Princess Badoura
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English
Note:
- Available online at Internet Archive and at HathiTrust Digital Library
- Presented as the story told on the last of the 1001 nights. Housman says in the introduction (1st ed., p1-4) that it is "according to some versions, the last of all", and such placement fits his evident purpose. See the Synopsis. This placement does not match Burton's translation (10 vols. + 6 vols of "Supplemental Nights").
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- (the novella, originally pp. 5-110) King Shahzaman's only son Camaralzaman refuses to marry because "If I marry, then by their cunning and guile will my soul and my freedom be taken from me." In anger, the king has locked in a dungeon, also occupied by the monster female Genie Meymooneh. Meymooneh is smitten by the Prince's beauty and vows to protect him. She runs into the Efreet Dahnash, who has seen the exact scenario, gender-reversed, happening to Princess Badoura in the "farthest isles of China". After Dahnash brings the princess to the prince's cell, he and Meymooneh argue as to which is the most beautiful, and call up the demon Kashkash to settle the argument. Kashkash says that only mortals can decide mortal beauty, so they should wake each in order, and the one that draws the strongest protestations of love from the other will be the winner. After they each fall in love with the other, they are spelled asleep, and Badoura returned to her cell. They struggle to re-unite, and then to be returned to Camaralzaman's home kingdom.
- (the introduction, p1-4) From the concluding paragraph: "The story which is here retold ... witnesses the accomplishment of the task which Scheherazade set out to perform. With the story of Badoura, the woman of beauty and brain, who, personating her husband, ruled a Kingdom ... [She] adumbrates what woman set free to use her own resources can do. And in this reflection of her own great adventurous self the series concludes. ..."
- (Epilogue, p111-13) Scheherazade petitions the King, in presence of their three children and her attendants, concluding, "Say, therefore, O King, when is my death to be; or if it is not to be, then let my suspense be ended."
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Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights | 1913-10-00 | Laurence Housman | Hodder & Stoughton | 113 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Edmund Dulac | |||
| Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights | 2016-02-14 | Laurence Housman | Project Gutenberg | 51219 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |