Arabian Nights Fairy Tales Tales Literature
Arabian Nights Fairy Tales Tales Literature
Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights, or Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of stories from Arabic literature.
The stories became known in Europe through Antoine Galland's translation into French, and Richard Burton provided a famous English translation.
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- The story of Alaeddin, as well as "Zein Ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn", in the translation by John Payne.
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- Text of the adaptation by Andrew Lang, first published in 1898, from Free Public Domain.
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- A brief description of the book with information on different editions.
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- Selected tales in either the Lang or Burton translation, searchable by story number, edition, and keyword.
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- Account by John Crocker on all aspects concerning the Arabian Nights, including history, editions, derived art works, cultural settings, bibliography and links.
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- Article (written circa 1900) about the collection of tales. Includes identification of stories that appear to be from Jewish sources.
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- As translated by Edward William Lane (1909-14) and revised by Stanley Lane-Poole; e-text at Bartleby.
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- A much condensed version of some stories from the Arabian Nights, by Diane Thompson.
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- As translated by John Payne from the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) editions of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night".
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- Twenty-six short stories as told by Scheherazade in order to save herself and others from death.
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- Entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia.
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- Text of the adaptation by Andrew Lang after the 1918 edition; e-text from the Project Gutenberg.
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- Bibliographic and biographic information about Sir Richard Burton, along with his complete translation, as well as the Scott, Lang, and Lane translations.
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- A short description and contextualization of the Arabian Nights.
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- Text as translated by Sir Richard Burton (1850), from the Middle East and Islamic Collection of Cornell University.
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