Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

By: Richard Francis Burton

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of "The Thousand and One Nights" are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This modern edition, culled from the first three volumes of Richard F. Burton's famous ten-volume translation, restores the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic. Intricate and imaginative, these stories continue to captivate audiences as they have for centuries.

The following stories can be found in this audiobook: "Tale of the Bull and the Ass", "Tale of the Trader and the Jinni", "The First Shaykh's Story", "The Second Shaykh's Story", "The Third Shaykh's Story", "The Fisherman and the Jinni", "The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban", "King Sindibad and his Falcon", "The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot", "The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress", "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince", "The Tale of the Three Apples", "The Hunchback's Tale", "The Nazarene Broker's Story", "The Reeve's Tale", "The Tale of the Jewish Doctor", "The Tale of the Tailor", "The Barber's Tale of Himself", "The Barber's Tale of His First Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Second Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Third Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Fourth Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Fifth Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Sixth Brother", "The End of the Tailor's Tale", "Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis", "The Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter", "The Hermits", and "Tale of the Water Fowl and the Tortoise".

Public Domain (P)2011 Tantor

Highly Recommended Classic

This is the story of a woman who convinced a serial killer not to kill her by inventing salacious, vulgar, wild tales of gossip night after night that keep him on the edge of his seat. The stories are hilarious and outragious. The narration is superb.

Really cool

These stories fascinate me because they’re ancient and the authors translation was done over a hundred years ago so it’s really cool to enjoy a sort of elegance in the language it’s even challenging and complex to cipher the ancient cadence of storytelling because although English the vernacular is waay different I also enjoy this almost unabridged version
If you want watered down easy listening versions of the stories this book is not for you if want the full effect then sit back and relax

Beauty and enlightening.

Wonderful engaging stories revealing attitudes of cultures and learning stories of the wise. I did not want it to end

Worth the exposure of ancient story telling

I was curious of Arabian folk lore. It was hard to finish the various story lines. I was curious of reported sexual topics or practices mentioned by historians. This book had very little sexualization of any scenes that would offend most modern readers. The knowledge I gained was the sexist or enslavement of females to satisfy the needs of men. The reader did an excellent. I don't plan to try any future readings on this book. Like learning Geometry to learn mathematical proofs, once was enough to fill that square of exposure.

Very understandable

An interesting and realistic interpretation of the original tale. A refreshing account of the foibles and follies of man.