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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)

by Richard Francis, Sir Burton

Fantasy · Romance · Adventure

Open Library OL27731503W

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a gathering of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).

About the author

Richard Francis, Sir Burton (1821–1890) is represented here by 11 public-domain titles, including First Footsteps in East Africa, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10), and The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10). This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for Richard Francis, Sir Burton.

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