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This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night—were published in 1885. His Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six volumes.
Jan 28, 2024 · The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night by John Payne, 1882–4 (1901 edition) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard Francis Burton (1885) (transcription project) Fairy tales from the Arabian nights; edited and arranged by E. Dixon with forty-four illustrations by John D. Batten. New York: Putnam. [n.d.]
May 23, 2018 · Thousand and One Nights. Thousand and One Nights, also called The Arabian Nights' Entertainment or simply The Arabian Nights, is a sprawling, centuries-old collection of tales. In the English-speaking world, it is the best-known work of Arabic stories. The framework of the collection is that a king named Shahriyar, distrustful of women, had the ...
The Thousand and One Nights. Excerpt from The Thousand and One Nights. Published in Stories from the Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Night's Entertainments, 1937 "The King, hearing these words, and being restless, was pleased with the idea of listening to the story; and thus, on the first night of the thousand and one, Shahrazad commenced her recitations."
The One Thousand and One Nights, perhaps better known in the Western world as the Arabian Nights, is a remarkable collection of folk tales and legends from what is commonly known as the Middle East. As with the classical Greek and Roman myths and the Norse legends, these stories are anonymous and have their roots in oral culture, passed down from one generation to the next.
6 days ago · The Thousand and One Nights, or The Arabian Nights Arabic Alf laylah wa laylah, Collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship. The frame story, in which the vengeful King Shahryar’s plan to marry and execute a new wife each day is foiled by the resourceful Scheherazade, is probably Indian; the tales ...
For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten’s Calcutta Edition of the original (1839– 42). As the object of the present translation was in the first place, and
