The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
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Meditations
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Crossing to Safety
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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The Waste Land and Other Writings
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Anna Karenina
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1
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The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang and to Build a Fire
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Basic Writings of Existentialism
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Paradise Lost
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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Walden and Other Writings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Moby-Dick
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Sense and Sensibility
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The Metamorphosis
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Wuthering Heights
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The Turn of the Screw and in the Cage
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In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove
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Father Brown
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War and Peace
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At the Mountains of Madness
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The Life of Alexander the Great
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
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Jane Eyre
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The Wealth of Nations
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Leaves of Grass
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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The Ox-Bow Incident
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Ethan Frome & Summer
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She
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The Innocents Abroad
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In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive
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Northanger Abbey
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
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Klondike Tales
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Letters on Life
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375756757 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375756752 |
| Title | The Arabian Nights |
| Author | Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| Series | Modern Library Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2001-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 912 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |