The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10) by Burton

"The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)" by Richard Francis Burton is a translation published in 1888. Burton's landmark work presents the complete, unexpurgated Arabian Nights in English for the first time, preserving the sexual content and cultural details that earlier Victorian translators had censored. This fifth volume continues Burton's controversial approach, combining vivid storytelling with extensive scholarly footnotes exploring Oriental customs and sexuality. His archaic, extravagant style and obsessive annotations made this both celebrated and criticized as a highly personal interpretation of these ancient Middle Eastern tales. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Title The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)
Alternate Title Arabian Nights;
1001 Nights
Original Publication [S.l.] : The Burton Club, 1885
Note Preceded by vol 4 PG#3438 and followed by vol 6 PG#3440
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_a_Night
Note There is an improved edition of this book available as #54257.
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 This etext was scanned by J.C. Byers and proofread by Doris Ringbloom.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 69.5 (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. 3439
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Dec 11, 2022
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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