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

by Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)

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"The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)" by Richard Francis Burton is a translation published in 1888. Burton's complete and unexpurgated English rendering of the Arabian Nights preserves the sexual content that Victorian-era publishers removed. Printed privately to avoid obscenity laws, this controversial work features extensive footnotes on Oriental customs and sexuality. Burton's archaic language and personal scholarly obsessions have drawn both admiration and criticism, making this translation as notorious for its translator's eccentric approach as for the timeless tales it contains.

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Volume One

Inscribed to the Memory
of
My Lamented Friend
John Frederick Steinhaeuser,
(Civil Surgeon, Aden)
who
A Quarter of a Century Ago
Assisted Me in this Translation.

“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE”
(Puris omnia pura)

—Arab Proverb.

“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”

—“Decameron”—conclusion.

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Contents

  1. Volume One
  2. Volume One
  3. Richard F. Burton
  4. Tale of the Trader and the Jinni
  5. The Fisherman and the Jinni
  6. The Tale of the Three Apples
  7. Tale of Nur Al-Din and His Son
  8. The Hunchback’s Tale

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This free edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10) by Richard Francis Burton comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #3435, released 2002-09-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Mythology, Legends & Folklore, Classics of Literature.

Other editions: eBook #51252 (most read).

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