The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). It stands as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the "Arabian Nights".
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| Country | United Kingdom
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| Language | English
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| Subject | Arab folktales and stories
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| Publisher | Privately printed by the "Kama Shastra Society"
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| Publication date | 1885
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BOOK CHRONOLOGY
| Followed by | The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night
(1886–1888) |
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