Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of…
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"Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3" by Richard Francis Burton is part of a translation series published between 1886-1888. This volume continues Burton's controversial rendering of Arabian Nights tales, famous for its unabridged content and extensive scholarly footnotes exploring Eastern customs and sexuality. Burton's work, printed privately to circumvent Victorian obscenity laws, remains notable for its literal approach and detailed appendices, though critics have
debated both its literary merit and its relationship to John Payne's earlier translation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Translator | Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 |
|---|---|
| Title | Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_a_Night |
| Note |
Here is the listing of titles for the entire series, which span multiple digitization efforts: Volume 1: #3435, #51252 Volume 2: #3436, #51775 Volume 3: #3437, #52564 Volume 4: #3438, #53254 Volume 5: #3439, #54257 Volume 6: #3440, #54525 Volume 7: #3441, #54778 Volume 8: #3442, #55091 Volume 9: #3443, #55587 Volume 10: #3444, #58360 Supplement Volume 1: #3445, #59156 Supplement Volume 2: #3446, #59953 Supplement Volume 3: #3447, #60889 (part 1), #61974 (part 2) Supplement Volume 4: #3448, #62140 Supplement Volume 5: #3449, #63266 Supplement Volume 6: #3450, #64384 |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Tonsing, Richard Hulse, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures |
| Subject | Fairy tales |
| Subject | Tales -- Arab countries |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 61974 |
| Release Date | Apr 29, 2020 |
| Last Update | May 24, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1081 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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