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Story Cycles

Islamicate story cycles, including the composite Persian, Indian, Egyptian, Iraqi, and Arabic story-world of the Arabian Nights.

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Texts

Stories from The Arabian Nights — Laurence HousmanLaurence Housman’s free retelling, published by Hodder and Stoughton of London with drawings by Edmund Dulac, of six tales from the Arabian Nights: the Fisherman and the Genie, the King of the Ebony Isles, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the Magic Horse, the Wicked Half-Brothers and the Princess of Deryabar.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. I — Richard F. BurtonThe first volume of Richard F. Burton’s Supplemental Nights to his Thousand Nights and a Night, in the Burton Club’s Shammar Edition: tales from the Breslau text of the Arabian Nights, among them The Sleeper and the Waker, the Ten Wazirs and King Shah Bakht and his Wazir Al-Rahwan, with 564 anthropological and explanatory notes and an index.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. II — Richard F. BurtonThe second of Richard F. Burton’s six volumes of Supplemental Nights, his English translation with notes of further Arabic Nights tales, chiefly from the Breslau text: Bibars and the Sixteen Captains of Police, Tohfat al-Kulub, Women’s Wiles, Nur al-Din Ali and Sitt al-Milah, King Ins bin Kays and his daughter, and three shorter tales, with W. A. Clouston’s appendix of variants and analogues and an index.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. III, Part 1 — Richard F. BurtonThe first part of the third volume of Richard F. Burton’s Supplemental Nights, given to the tales long known only from Galland’s French: Zayn al-Asnam and Alaeddin translated from an Arabic manuscript in Paris, E. J. W. Gibb’s version of a Turkish Zayn al-Asnam, an English translation of Galland’s Aladdin, and Khudadad and His Brothers with the Princess of Daryabar from the Hindustani, with Burton’s foreword and 254 notes.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. III, Part 2 — Richard F. BurtonThe second part of the third volume of Richard F. Burton’s Supplemental Nights, in the Burton Club’s Shammar Edition: The Caliph’s Night Adventure with the stories of Baba Abdullah, Sidi Nu’uman and Khwajah Hasan al-Habbal, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad, Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu, and the Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette, with 193 notes, W. A. Clouston’s appendix of variants and analogues, and the index to the volume.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. IV — Richard F. BurtonThe fourth volume of Richard F. Burton’s Supplemental Nights: his English version of the tales of the Wortley Montague manuscript of the Nights in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Nights 330 to 480), from the Sultan of Al-Yaman and his three sons and the Three Sharpers to the Kazi and the Bhang-Eater and Abu Niyyah and Abu Niyyatayn, with his 426 notes, his correspondence with the Bodleian, and three tales from Gibb’s Forty Vezirs.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. V — Richard F. BurtonThe fifth of Richard F. Burton’s six volumes of Supplemental Nights, the last of his translations from the Wortley Montague manuscript of the Arabian Nights in the Bodleian Library: twenty-four tales, among them the Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf, the Merchant’s Daughter and the Prince of Al-Irak and many short tales of wives, lovers and tricksters, with 645 notes, an index, Burton’s catalogue of the manuscript and W. F. Kirby’s notes on the stories of Volumes IV and V.Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. VI — Richard F. BurtonThe sixth and last volume of Richard F. Burton’s Supplemental Nights, the sixteenth of his Thousand Nights and a Night: tales of the “New Arabian Nights” from a Paris manuscript, among them the Say of Haykar the Sage, Al-Bundukani, the Linguist-Dame, the Tale of Attaf (with Alexander J. Cotheal’s version) and Prince Habib, with 460 notes, indexes to all six volumes, W. F. Kirby’s notes, and Burton’s “Biography of the Book and Its Reviewers Reviewed” with opinions of the press.Tales from the Arabic — John PayneJohn Payne’s three-volume English translation (Delhi Edition, 1901) of the tales of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814–18) Arabic editions of the Thousand Nights and One Night that are not in the other printed texts, among them Asleep and Awake, the Ten Viziers, King Shah Bekht and his vizier, the Sixteen Officers of Police and the Calcutta text of Sindbad’s sixth and seventh voyages, with Payne’s notes, his tables of contents of the Arabic editions and an index.The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Andrew LangThe Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Andrew Lang's 1898 selection from the Thousand and One Nights: Scheherazade's framing story, Sindbad the Sailor, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba, The Three Calenders, Prince Camaralzaman, The Enchanted Horse, and 28 other tales.The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Jonathan ScottThe Aldine Edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890, four volumes), printed from Jonathan Scott’s English text of 1811: the frame story of Scheherazade, the Merchant and the Genie, the Fisherman, the Three Calenders, Sinbad the Voyager, the Little Hunch-back and the Barber’s brothers, Kummir al Zummaun and Badoura, Alla ad Deen, Ali Baba, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Perie Banou, and a further run of shorter tales in the fourth volume.The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Richard BurtonThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Richard Francis Burton's landmark 1885 translation of the composite Islamicate Arabian Nights corpus, with extensive Arabic-facing scholarly annotations.The Thousand and One Days — Miss PardoeAn 1857 London collection of Eastern tales for young readers, published by William Lay with an introduction by Miss Pardoe: ten numbered stories with their tales within tales, among them Hassan Abdallah and the Enchanted Keys, Prince Khalaf and the Princess of China, the Treasures of Basra, and King Bedreddin-Lolo and his vizir Atalmulc.Told in the Gardens of Araby — Izora Chandler and Mary W. MontgomeryIzora Chandler and Mary W. Montgomery’s 1905 collection of nine wonder tales of kings, princesses, dervishes and genies, among them The Emerald Roc, the Crying Pomegranate and the Laughing Bear, and The Crystal Kiosk and the Diamond Ship, framed by a prelude in which an American visitor hears stories told in a walled garden.