The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

About this book

"The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)" by Richard Francis Burton is a translation published in 1888. Burton's landmark work presents the complete, unexpurgated Arabian Nights in English for the first time, preserving the sexual content and cultural details that earlier Victorian translators had censored. This fifth volume continues Burton's controversial approach, combining vivid storytelling with extensive scholarly footnotes exploring Oriental customs and sexuality. His archaic, extravagant style and obsessive annotations made this both celebrated and criticized as a highly personal interpretation of these ancient Middle Eastern tales.

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Preceded by vol 4 PG#3438 and followed by vol 6 PG#3440 Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Thousand_Nights_and_a_Night There is an improved edition of this book available as #54257. Here is the listing of titles for the entire series, which span multiple digitization efforts: Volume 1: #3435, #51252 Volume 2: #3436, #51775 Volume 3: #3437, #52564 Volume 4: #3438, #53254 Volume 5: #3439, #54257 Volume 6: #3440, #54525 Volume 7: #3441, #54778 Volume 8: #3442, #55091 Volume 9: #3443, #55587 Volume 10: #3444, #58360 Supplement Volume 1: #3445, #59156 Supplement Volume 2: #3446, #59953 Supplement Volume 3: #3447, #60889 (part 1), #61974 (part 2) Supplement Volume 4: #3448, #62140 Supplement Volume 5: #3449, #63266 Supplement Volume 6: #3450, #64384

Reading level
B1 · Intermediate
Language
English