One Thousand and One Nights
Complete tales of 1001 Arabian Nights in One volume. Illustrated
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Publisher Description
This book contents a complete collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.
The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars.
The thing common to all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.
Contents:
Jonathan Scott 1811 Translation
John Payne 1884 Translation
Richard Francis Burton 1885 Translation
Andrew Lang 1885 Translation
Julia Pardoe 1857 Adaptation