The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night

The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: a plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton; illustrated by Albert Letchford.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

– The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the “Arabian Nights”) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th-13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).