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THE BOOK OF THE

THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT

A Plain and Literal Translation

of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

Translated and Annotated by

Richard F. Burton

VOLUME ONE

Inscribed to the Memory

of

My Lamented Friend

John Frederick Steinhaeuser,

(Civil Surgeon, Aden)

who

A Quarter of a Century Ago

Assisted Me in this Translation.

“To the pure all things are pure” (Puris omnia pura)- Arab Proverb. “Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”- “Decameron” - conclusion. “Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum Sed coram Bruto. Brute! reced, leget.- Martial. “Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”- Rabelais. “The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand and One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions.”- Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”