The Arabian Nights - 9781974298532

The Arabian Nights By Andrew Lang The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") - a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th-13th centuries) - by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the "Arabian Nights" until the Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons translation in 2008.

• | Author: Andrew Lang
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 124 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1974298531
• | ISBN-13: 9781974298532