The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
by Richard Francis, Sir Burton
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).