The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)
by Richard Francis Burton (Translator) 
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Over 50 tales from the Arabian nights, including "Sinbad the seaman," "Ali Baba and the forty thieves," and "Aladdin, or the wonderful lamp."Tags
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This edition of The Arabian Nights features over 50 of the stories from Burton's translation and also has illustrations from the 1857 edition of the E. W. Lane translation. Burton apparently tried to give something of the flavor of the Arabic manuscript and included all the poetry and the salutations to Allah which along with the rather formal, even antique, English makes for a slow read. Also included are Burton's annotations which are sometimes interesting. Some of these stories were new to me, not having been included in versions I've read elsewhere.
Title page says "from the edition privately printed by The Burton Club" and there is a photograph on the opposite page of, I assume, Sir Richard F. Burton.
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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: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (Modern Library Classics)
- People/Characters
- Shahryar; Shahrazad
- Disambiguation notice
- A selection from the original Burton translation by David Shumaker. Please do not combine with other abridgements, single volumes or complete sets.
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- Genre
- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 398.2 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature
- LCC
- PJ7716 .A1 .B8 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Arabic Arabic literature Individual authors or works
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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