: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton Richard Francis Sir Translator - Fairy tales; Tales Arab countries

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Produced by: JC Byers, Nancy Bloomquist, Matt Dyer, Muhammad Hozien, Carrie Lorenz, Nigel Preston-Jones, Anne Soulard and Ross Werner

SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS To The Book Of The Thousand And One Nights With Notes Anthropological And Explanatory

To Henry Edward John, Lord Stanley of Alderley

This The Most Innocent Volume of the Nights is Inscribed by His Old Companion,

The Author.

Contents of the Thirteenth Volume.

The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp Khudadad and His Brothers The Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdullah History of Sisi Nu'uman History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette

Additional Notes:--

The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu

The Translator's Foreword.

It will hardly be doubted that for a complete recueil of The Nights a retranslation of the Gallandian histoires is necessary. The learned Professor Gustav Weil introduced them all, Germanised literally from the French, into the Dritter Band of his well-known version--Tausend und eine Nacht; and not a few readers of Mr. John Payne's admirable translation complained that they had bought it in order to see Ali Baba, Aladdin, and others translated into classical English and that they much regretted the absence of their old favourites.

But the modus operandi was my prime difficulty. I disliked the idea of an unartistic break or change in the style, ever

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