The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the first of sixteen volumes translated by Burton.

Translated By : Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)

01 - Section One 02 - Section Two 03 - Section Three 04 - Section Four 05 - Section Five 06 - Section Six 07 - Section Seven 08 - Section Eight 09 - Section Nine 10 - Section Ten 11 - Section Eleven 12 - Section Twelve 13 - Section Thirteen 14 - Section Fourteen 15 - Section Fifteen 16 - Section Sixteen 17 - Section Seventeen 18 - Section Eighteen 19 - Section Nineteen 20 - Section Twenty 21 - Section Twenty One 22 - Section Twenty-Two 23 - Section Twenty-Three