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Arabian Nights; The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Main character:

Arabian Nights; The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Main character: Shahrazad; Includes Aladdin or, the Wonderful Lamp; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; Sinbad the Sailor.) Hardcover - 2007

by Burton, Richard (editor) (Main character: Shahrazad; Illustrations by Brothers Dalziel; William Harvey.)

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London: Collector's Library Editions 978-1-904633-96-9 [978-1-904633-96-9] 2007. (4to) 527pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. All edges gilt, color illustrated endpapers, illustrations, ribbon marker. Lightly edgeworn. "These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: a thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. Full of mischief, valour, ribaldry, and romance, the Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries". Includes Aladdin or, the Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor. Illustrations by Brothers Dalziel & William Harvey. Translated and annotated by Richard Burton. Locale: Arabia. Main character: Shahrazad. (Fiction, Storytelling).
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Sir Richard Burton was an orientalist explorer, diplomat and eccentric. He was a remarkable linguist, and his mastery of Arabic enabled him to mix with the Arabs disguised as one of them. In 1853 he made Haj, the trip to Mecca that is required of every Muslim, at a time when such an exploit by a European could have meant death. He wrote many books of travel during his time as employee of the Foreign Office, but he is best known for his unexpurgated translation of "The Arabian Nights." He spent the last fourteen years of his life working on a translation of "The Perfumed Garden," but Lady Burton burned it after his death.