Directory of Arabian Nights Resources

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The Arabian Nights, or Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of stories from Arabic literature. The stories became known in Europe through Antoine Galland's translation into French, and Richard Burton provided a famous English translation.

Subcategories

• Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Resources in This Category

• Arabian Nights Entertainments

  http://fpd.iwarp.com/arabianMN.html
  Text of the adaptation by Andrew Lang, first published in 1898, from Free Public Domain.

• Arabian Nights Study Guide

  http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/eng251/arabstudy.htm
  A much condensed version of some stories from the Arabian Nights, by Diane Thompson.

• Free Library: The Arabian Nights

  http://lang.thefreelibrary.com/Arabian-Nights
  Free Library online transcriptions of many stories from The Arabian Nights, as translated by Andrew Lang.

• Jewish Encyclopedia: Arabian Nights

  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1684&letter=A
  Article (written circa 1900) about the collection of tales. Includes identification of stories that appear to be from Jewish sources.

• Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

  http://www.bartleby.com/16/
  As translated by Edward William Lane (1909-14) and revised by Stanley Lane-Poole; e-text at Bartleby.

• The Arabian Nights

  http://mfx.dasburo.com/an/a_index_commented.html
  Gateway site to the ASCII text of Sir Richard Burton's unexpurgated translation; includes synopses and commentaries on the tales.

• The Arabian Nights (Alf Layla wa Layla)

  http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/arabnit.htm
  Text as translated by Sir Richard Burton (1850), from the Middle East and Islamic Collection of Cornell University.

• The Arabian Nights Nights Entertainments

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5668
  Text of the adaptation by Andrew Lang after the 1918 edition; e-text from the Project Gutenberg.

• The Electronic Literature Foundation: The Arabian Nights

  http://arabiannights.org/
  The Electronic Literature Foundation's presentation of The Arabian Nights, using translations by Andrew Lang and Sir Richard Burton.

• The Thousand Nights and a Night

  http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/
  Bibliographic and biographic information about Sir Richard Burton, along with his complete translation, as well as the Scott, Lang, and Lane translations.

• Thousand and One Nights

  http://encyclopedia.com/topic/Thousand_and_One_Nights.aspx
  Entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia.

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