Book 4 of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Language: English
Classics Fairy Tales Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology Fantasy Fiction Folk Tales General Legends & Mythology
Publisher: Blurb, Incorporated
Published: Nov 14, 2021
Description:
"The present is, I believe, the first complete translation of the great Arabic compendium of romantic fiction that has been attempted in any European language comprising about four times as much matter as that of Galland and three times as much as that of any other translator known to myself; and a short statement of the sources from which it is derived may therefore be acceptable to my readers. Three printed editions, more or less complete, exist of the Arabic text of the Thousand and One Nights; namely, those of Breslau, Boulac (Cairo) and Calcutta (1839), besides an incomplete one, comprising the first two hundred nights only, published at Calcutta in 1814."