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Description
Working from the definitive edition established by Muhsin Mahdi (based on the 14th century Syrian manuscript), this is a translation of "The Arabian Nights". It contains stories, of Arabic and Persian origin, which weave magic into the fabric of everday life, mixing flamboyance, pathos and... read more
First Sentence
Verily the works and words of those gone before us have become instances and examples to men of our modern day, that folk may view what admonishing chances befel other folk and may therefrom take warning; and that they may peruse the annals of antique peoples and all that hath betided them, and be thereby ruled and restrained:-Praise, therefore, be to Him who hath made the histories of the Past an admonition unto the Present!
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Richard Francis Burton (Compiler)
Other Contributors:
- Jon Barton
- Husain Haddawy (Author)
- Muhsin Mahdi
- Bennett Cerf
- Edward William Lane
- Edward Stanley Poole
- Gregory C. Aaron
- Martin Woodside (Author)
- Geraldine McCaughrean (Author)
- Brian Alderson (Author)
- Edmund Dulac (Author)
- Andrew Lang
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