The Book of the Thousand and one Nights. Volume 1 (Thousand Nights & One Night)

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This translation, the only complete and accurate one in English and now available in paperback, presents a full and frank version of the Arabian Nights. The World's most vivid and absorbing stories are here given in a full and unexpurgated translation, and in all the enthralling power of their narrative. First Published in 1986. For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten's Calcutta Edition of the original (1839– 42). IT is related-but Allah is all wise and all knowing, all powerful and all beneficent-that there was, in the tide and show of ancient time and the passage of the age and of the moment, a king among the kings of Sasan, in the isles of India and China. The third volume of this complete and accurate translation of the tales of the Arabian nights. This first of four volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights. Annotation Volume four of this translation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights