THE ATHENAEUMThe Arabian Nights EntertainmentsAndrew Lang
Legend
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textAndrew Lang’s selection of the best-known stories of the Thousand and One Nights, retold for children in 1898: Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sindbad and the rest, told by Scheherazade to keep herself alive. The Nights came into Europe through Antoine Galland’s French translation, begun in 1704, and English children have read them ever since. David Copperfield read them, in some older translation, with his father’s books in the little room upstairs.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 7 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- The Room of Books Within Books
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #128. In the public domain in the United States.