The Arabian Nights
translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
First collected nearly a thousand years ago, the folktales collected in The Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the next evening's entertainment and thereby save her life. Among them are some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling, including 'Sinbad the Sailor', 'Aladdin and His Magic Lamp', and 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.'
This collection features more than twenty stories, in the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton, published between 1884 and 1886, and full-colour illustrations by Renata Fucikova and Jindra Capek.
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Table of Contents
The Tale of Scheherazade
The Tale of the Trader with the Jinni
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Jinni
The Barber’s Tale of Himself
The Sleeper and the Waker
Sinbad the Sailor
The Tale of Prince Sayf al-Muluk
The Tale of the Tailor
The Tale of Zayn al-Asnam and the Sultan of the Jinni
Khudadad and His Brothers
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
The Adventures of Harun al-Rashid
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad
Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Per-Banu
The Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister
The History of Prince Amjad and of Prince As’ad
Julnár the Sea-born
The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty
The Tale of Ali Bin Bakkár and of Shams al-Nahár
The Tale of Scheherazade Concluded
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Full-colour illustrations throughout by Renata Fucikova and Jindra Capek.
Collector’s Hardcover Edition
752 pages. Bonded-leather binding, textured printing to front, back and spine. Gold gilt edging, illustrated endpapers, ribbon bookmark.
ISBN: 9781435156234
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About the Translator
The late Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821 – 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages.
Burton's best-known achievements include a well-documented journey to Mecca, in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.
