The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3

Description

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night is a book by British writer Richard Francis Burton. This is the third of seventeen volumes that Burton translated from the One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age which use the framing device of the ruler Shahryār being narrated the tales by his wife Scheherazade, with one tale told over each night of storytelling. Volume 3 includes the following stories: The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and His Sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan (cont); The Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter; The Hermits; The Water-Fowl and the Tortoise; The Wolf and the Fox; The Mouse and the Ichneumon; The Cat and the Crow; The Fox and the Crow; The Hedgehog and the Wood Pigeons; The Thief and His Monkey; The Sparrow and the Peacock; Ali Bin Bakkar and Shams Al-Nahar; and, Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman.

№ 3 in the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night series.

This book has 156,700 words, 225 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1885.

Production notes: This ebook of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 was published by Global Grey on the 25th May 2024. The artwork used for the cover is an illustration from 'Stories from the Arabian nights' by Edmund Dulac.