The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 1
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Betrayed by his first wife, King Shahryar resolves to marry a new bride each night and have her executed by dawn, until the vizier's daughter Shahrazad volunteers herself and begins a story so gripping that the king cannot bear to silence her before its end. Night after night, she spins tales of genies bound in bottles, merchants who cross paths with sorcerers, and princes transformed to stone, each story folding into the next, buying herself another day of life. Sir Richard Burton's celebrated, unexpurgated translation of the Arabian Nights opens this first volume with the storytelling frame and its earliest, most enduring tales.
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Praise Be to Allah * the Beneficent King * the Creator of the Universe * Lord of the Three Worlds * Who Set Up the Firmament Without Pillars In Its Stead * and Who Stretched Out the Earth Even as a Bed * And Grace, and Prayer-Blessing Be upon Our Lord Mohammed * Lord Of Apostolic Men * and upon his Family and Companion Train * Prayer And Blessings Enduring and Grace Which Unto the Day of Doom Shall Remain * Amen! * O Thou of the Three Worlds Sovereign!
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Tale of the Bull and the Ass
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Tale of the Trader and the Jinni
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The Fisherman and the Jinni
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The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban
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The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress
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The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince
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The Tale of the Envier and the Envied
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The Tale of the Envier and the Envied (continued)
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Tale of the Portress
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The Tale of the Three Apples
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Tale of Nur Al-Din and his Son
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Tale of Nur Al-Din and his Son (continued)
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The Hunchback’s Tale
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Tale of the Jewish Doctor
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Tale of the Tailor
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