The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — better known as the Arabian Nights — is a vast medieval Arabic story collection assembled over centuries from Persian, Arabic, and Indian sources. This is the first volume of Richard Francis Burton’s monumental and celebrated English translation, first published in 1885. It opens with the frame story of Scheherazade and launches the reader into an extraordinary world of magic, adventure, merchants, caliphs, and genies.
Burton’s translation is renowned for its scholarly depth and literary richness. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg to begin exploring one of world literature’s most inexhaustible treasures.