Modern Library Classics: The Arabian Nights : Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Paperback)

from benuathanasia

Some of the more memorable stories. A lovely selection. It would be wonderful if the notes were footnotes instead of placed in the appendix (really annoying to flip around 700+ pages to find a translation for something minor), but the authenticity has been well preserved. The language is flowery,...

from xicanti

Sir Richard Burton's translation presents a nice selection of the stories. He's chosen many of the most popular tales, (including Aladdin), plus a large number of lesser-known - but still highly entertaining - stories. His translations are perhaps a tad colonial, but in most cases I found that he...

from jmoncton

The Arabian Nights are a collection of stories from Asia and the Middle East that were orally passed along. Today, there are many translations and versions of these stories. In English, probably one of the best known versions was compiled and translated from Arabic by Sir Richard Francis Burton. ...

from JoniMFisher

The unabridged version is huge, but it comes with a glossary of sorts in the back. No flying carpet anywhere in the entire tome--blast Disney. These stories were handed down long before Islam became a religion backed by the Koran, so this book offers keen insights into the culture it came from. J...

from imaginationzombie

Wonderful. So neat to read from a different time and era, and yet the basic motivations of humanity stays the same. I like how one story is always about another story, which is about another. Also, these stories are quite a bit naughtier than I had realized. Loved it.