THE ATHENAEUMThe Book of the Thousand Nights and One NightJohn Payne
Legend
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textJohn Payne’s translation, the first complete one into English from the Arabic, came out in nine volumes from 1882 to 1884, five hundred copies for subscribers only. Burton, who had planned his own, followed it closely, and readers have argued ever since over how much he owed it. Payne’s English is plainer than Burton’s, and many think it the better of the two.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 9 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- On the Legend shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8655. In the public domain in the United States.