Tales from the Arabian Nights - Hardcover

Anonymous; Richard Francis Burton

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9780946495245: Tales from the Arabian Nights

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0946495246 ISBN 13: 9780946495245

Publisher: Bracken Books, 1985

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Selected by Anthony Atha from the Illustrated Benares Edition issued by The Burton Club for private circulation among its members. Tales include: Story of King Shahryar and His Brother Tale of the Trader and the Jinni The Fisherman and the Jinni The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad Tale of the Three Apples Tale of Nur Al-Din Ali and His Son Badr Al-Din Hasan The Hunchback's Tale Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis The Thief and His Monkey Abu Mohammed Hight Lazybones The Ebony Horse Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman Judar and His Brethren Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves With black and white plate illustrations.

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Sir Richard Burton was an orientalist explorer, diplomat and eccentric. He was a remarkable linguist, and his mastery of Arabic enabled him to mix with the Arabs disguised as one of them. In 1853 he made Haj, the trip to Mecca that is required of every Muslim, at a time when such an exploit by a European could have meant death. He wrote many books of travel during his time as employee of the Foreign Office, but he is best known for his unexpurgated translation of The Arabian Nights. He spent the last fourteen years of his life working on a translation of The Perfumed Garden, but Lady Burton burned it after his death.

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