The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is a cycle of stories that come from Arabia and Persia. There are different layers of the stories:

• Uppermost is the story of Queen Scheherazade who needs to entertain her husband, the Sultan or King Sheheryar, or she would be put to death.
• The next layer is made up of the actual stories, such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, etc.
• In those stories, there is often also a narrator who tells the story.

Related pages

• Sinbad the Sailor

References

• The Thousand Nights and a Night in several classic translations, including unexpurgated version by Sir Francis Burton, and John Payne translation, with additional material.
• Stories From One Thousand and One Nights, (Lane and Poole translation): Project Bartleby edition
• The Arabian Nights (includes Lang and (expurgated) Burton translations): Electronic Literature Foundation editions
• The Medieval Arabic Nights - a study
• Jonathan Scott translation of Arabian Nights
• Notes on the influences and context of the Thousand and One Nights
• 1001 Resources and Links for A Thousand and One Nights University of Houston
• The Book of the Thousand and One Nights by John Crocker
• (expurgated) Sir Burton's ~1885 translation, annotated for English study.
• Arabian Nights' Tales Dedicated site with just the stories of 1001 nights listed in order.