The Arabian Nights Entertainments [tr. Burton, complete]
by Sir Richard Burton
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This is the uncensored version of 1001 Nights, translated from the original Arabic, guaranteed to transport you to a different time and place night after night.Tags
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Book Description: New York: Modern Library, 1932. 5" Wide x 7-1/4" Tall. Hard cover with grey cloth-covered boards and spine is in VERY GOOD condition. Very light bumping to spine ends and corners. Cover is water marked and worn otherwise a good tight copy
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Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Sights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa. He once traveled to Mecca in disguise and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890.
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- Canonical title
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments [tr. Burton, complete]
- Alternate titles
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
- Original publication date
- 1885-1888 (Burton's original translation privately printed in Benares, India, in sixteen volumes) (Burton's original translation privately printed in Benares, India, in sixteen volumes)
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- 892.21 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Aramaic (for India, see 891.1 and 891.4)
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- PJ7715 .B8 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Arabic Arabic literature Individual authors or works
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