The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume 4 of 12

Vol. 1 -- THE TALE OF KING SHAHRYAR AND OF HIS BROTHER, KING SHAHZAMAN -- THE TALE OF THE MERCHANT AND THE IFRIT -- THE FISHERMAN AND THE]INNi -- THE TALE OF THE PORTER AND THE YOUNG GIRLS -- THE TALE OF THE WOMAN CUT IN PIECES, THE THREE APPLES AND THE NEGRO RAIHAN -- THE TALE OF THEW AZiR NOR AL-DiN, HIS BROTHER THE WAZiR SHAMS AL-DiN, AND HASAN BADR AL-DiN -- THE TALE OF THE HUNCHBACK WITH THE TAILOR, THE CHRISTIAN BROKER, THE STEWARD AND THE JEWISH DOCTOR WHAT FOLLOWED AFTER AND THE TALES WHICH EACH OF THEM TOLD -- THE TALE OF THE BARBER OF BAGHDAD AND THE TALES OF HIS SIX BROTHERS -- THE TALE OF SWEET-FRIEND AND ALi-NUR -- THE TALE OF GHANIM IBN AYYUB AND HIS SISTER FITNAH -- THE TALE OF KING UMAR AL-NUMAN AND HIS TWO REMARKABLE SONS, SHARKAN AND DU AL-MAKAN -- THE DELIGHTFUL TALE OF THE BEASTS AND BIRDS -- THE TALE OF ALI IBN BAKR AND THE FAIR SHAMS AL-NA HAR -- Vol. 2 --THE TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE PRINCESS BUDUR, MOON OF MOONS -- THE TALE OF HAPPY-HANDSOME AND HAPPY-FAIR -- THE TALE OF ALA AL-DiN ABU SHAMAT -- THE TALE OF SYMPATHY THE LEARNED -- AN ADVENTURE OF THE POET ABU NUWAS -- THE TALE OF SINBAD THE SAILOR -- THE TALE OF ZUMURRUD THE BEAUTIFUL, AND OF ALi SHAR, SON OF GLORY -- THE TALE OF THE SIX DIFFERENT COLOURED GIRLS -- THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE CITY OF BRASS -- THE TALE OF IBN AL-MANSUR AND THE TWO GIRLS -- -THE TALE OF WARDAN THE BUTCHER AND THE WAZiR'S DAUGHTER -- THE TALE OF YAMLIKA, QUEEN OF THE SERPENTS -- THE FLOWERING TERRACE OF WIT AND GARDEN OF GALLANTRY -- THE STRANGE KHALiFAH -- THE TALE OF ROSE-IN-THE-BUD AND WORLD'S DELIGHT -- THE MAGIC TALE OF THE EBONY HORSE -- THE TALE OF THE SHIFTS OF DELILAH-THE-WILY AND HER DAUGHTER ZAINAB-THE-CHEAT, WITH AHMADTHE- MOTH, HASAN-THE-PEST, AND ALi QUICKSILVER -- THE TALE OF JUDAR THE FISHERMAN OR THE ENCHANTED BAG Vol. 3 -- THE TALE OF ABU KiR AND ABU SiR -- MORAL ANECDOTES FROM THE PERFUMED GARDEN -- THE TALE OF LAND ABDALLAH AND SEA ABDALLAH -- THE TALE OF THE YELLOW YOUTH -- THE TALE OF POMEGRANATE-FLOWER AND BADR BASiM -- ISHAK'S WINTER EVENING -- THE FALLAH OF EGYPT AND HIS WHITE CHILDREN -- THE TALE OF KHALiFAH THE FISHERMAN -- THE ADVENTURES OF HASAN OF BASRAH -- THE DiWAN OF JOVIAL AND INDECENT FOLK -- THE TALE OF THE SLEEPER WAKENED -- THE LOVES OF ZAIN AL-MAWASIF -- THE TALE OF THE LAZY YOUTH -- THE TALE OF YOUNG NUR AND THE WARRIOR GIRL -- THE RECITALS OF GENEROSITY AND CONDUCT -- THE STRANGE TALE OF THE MIRROR OF VIRGINS -- THE TALE OF ALA AL·DiN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP -- THE PARABLE OF TRUE LEARNING -- FARIZAD OF THE ROSE'S SMILE -- THE TALE OF KAMAR AND THE EXPERT HALiMAH -- THE TALE OF THE LEG OF MUTTON -- THE KEYS OF DESTINY -- THE DiWAN OF EASY JESTS AND LAUGHING WISDOM -- THE TALE OF PRINCESS NUR AL-NIHAR AND THE LOVELY JINNiYAH -- Vol. 4. -- THE TALE OF PEARL-HARVEST -- THE TALE OF THE TWO LIVES OF SULTAN MAHMUD -- THE TALE OF THE UNENDING TREASURE -- THE ADVENTURES OF THE ROY AL BASTARD -- WISDOM BELOW THE SEVERED HEADS -- THE PERFIDY OF WIVES -- THE TALE OF ALi BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES -- THE MEETINGS OF AL-RASHiD ON THE BRIDGE OF BAGHDAD -- THE TALE OF PRINCESS ZULAIKAH -- SWEET TALES OF CARELESS YOUTH -- THE TALE OF THE MAGIC BOOK -- THE SPLENDID TALE OF PRINCE DIAMOND -- SOME JESTS AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE MASTER OF SHIFTS AND LAUGHTER -- THE TALE OF THE GIRL HEART'S-MIRACLE, LIEUTENANT OF THE BIRDS -- THE TALE OF AL-MALIK BAIBARS AND HIS CAPTAINS OF POLICE -- THE TALE OF THE SEA ROSE OF THE GIRL OF CHINA -- THE TALE OF THE HONEY CAKE AND THE COBBLER'S CALAMITOUS WIFE -- WINDOWS ON THE GARDEN OF HISTORY -- THE END OF JAFAR AND THE BARMAKIDS -- THE TENDER TALE OF PRINCE JASMINE AND PRINCESS ALMOND. 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. 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. It is related in the writings of the wise past that the commander of the Faithful, al-Mutasid Billah, sixth Khalifah in the kine of Abbas, grandson of al-Mutawakkil, grandson of Harun al-Rashid, was a prince of lofty soul and fearless heart. LITTLE DUNYAZAD, who could not contain her impatience, rose from her carpet and said to Shahrazad: 'Sister, I pray you hasten to tell us the tale which you have promised; for its title alone has filled my heart with joy.' First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This is a translation by Powys Mathers from the French edition by J.-C. Mardrus. First published in 1986. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.