The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 2

Shahrazad's nightly reprieve continues in this second volume of Burton's landmark translation, as her tales grow ever more elaborate: voyages to islands that turn out to be sleeping sea monsters, princes cursed to live as fish, jewel-thieves and genies bound by ancient oaths, and cities turned entirely to stone by a forgotten sin. Burton renders the tales in their full, unbowdlerized richness, with the ornate, energetic prose and extensive annotation that made his edition the most notorious and complete Arabian Nights ever published in English. A treasury of wonder for readers who want the real thing, unabridged.