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The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

LibriVox recording of The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07 by Anonymous. (Translated by Richard Burton.) Read in English by DJRickyV; April Gonzales; Lynne Thompson; Pam Castille; pjhoury; Daniel Vimont; Jeff K.; Lauren Jane; mlcui; rookieblue; Allie Cingi; Paul Mazumdar; Terry Torres; Ravi Shankar; bobrose This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the seventh of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS

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