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The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The book of a thousand nights and a night : a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations by Burton, Richard Francis;Cerf, Bennett is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The book of a thousand nights and a night : a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations about?
Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.<br> The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only m
Who reads The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The book of a thousand nights and a night : a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Burton, Richard Francis;Cerf, Bennett
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679602354
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (2001)
- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (2009)
- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (2013)
- The Arabian nights' entertainments: or, The book of a thousand nights and a night (1932)
- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (2004)
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