The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 03
Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin
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This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, 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 third of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. (based on Wikipedia article) (15 hr 0 min)
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beautifully written
Tony Greyhound
the English dialect used by Burton adds greatly to the so interesting and sometimes bizarre stories. I've read this book at least five times over fifty years and found this audiobook on Spotify about a year ago which is how I found LibriVox, who doesn't shut me off after 15 hours per month. Some of the ESL readers are a little difficult but this is a work that is better in a informal setting. I couldn't imagine a highly produced professional version.
classic tales
Caren Bordowitz
depending on who the reader is that it can be really wonderful, or just so so. my favorite reader Lash Romander
hard work
Gerard Kelly
Horrible translation rendered in archaic English, with some garbled reading made it very difficult to follow