Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, The, Volume 05

By Anonymous

Book Id: WPLBN0002951745
Format Type:
File Size: 510.61 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, The, Volume 05
Author:	Anonymous
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fairy tales, Myths/Legends
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, The, Volume 05
Historic Publication Date:	1885
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
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 first of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01 )

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fairy tales, Myths/Legends