Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of…
"Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1" by Richard Francis Burton is a collection of tales published between 1886-1888. This work extends Burton's controversial ten-volume translation of the Arabian Nights with seven additional volumes of stories from the Islamic Golden Age. Burton's version preserves the original texts' sexual content through extensive footnotes exploring Oriental customs, making it a private subscription edition to avoid Victorian obscenity
laws. His translation stands as both scholarly achievement and personal interpretation, celebrated for completeness while criticized for archaic language and obsessive focus on sexuality. (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 1 (of 6) |
| Alternate Title |
Arabian Nights; 1001 Nights |
| 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 |
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| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures |
| Subject | Folklore -- Arab countries |
| Subject | Fairy tales -- Arab countries |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 59156 |
| Release Date | Mar 30, 2019 |
| Most Recently Updated | May 24, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 338 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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