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  • By: Richard Francis Burton
  • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
  • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)
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Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

By: Richard Francis Burton
Narrated by: Kevin Foley
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Summary

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".

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Time travel into a bizarre era

This was a weird book. I did lots of research on which book to choose and in the end decided on this one. Some people said they didn’t like this because it is racist, sexist etc. Well stories in this book created 1000 years ago, it was a different world then. It is better for us to understand what the reality was back then, what kind of paths humans passed and came where they are today. There is a big t of old English in it. You get used to it quickly. I increased reading speed to 1.2 and performance became better, more melodic. In the end I recommend this book and this translation of it, it is an important source to understand the lives and values of people who lived so long ago. I prefer reality over a gentrified shell.

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Not the best reader

Usually absolutely love this story, and got excited when i found that i could listen via audible, however the reader sounds like siri, just robotic when no emotion in his voice at all, made my ears hurt, so disappointed.

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Arabian Nights

Can be a little hard to follow, so I found I had to concentrate more than usual. Lovely stories. But I think the narration is a bit bland for this book.

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