The Arabian Nights by Richard Francis Burton (Hardcover)

Burton's English rendering of the Arabian Nights is the version that carried these tales into Victorian libraries and kept their frame story intact. This hardcover runs to 654 pages, holding the cycle of stories told night after night inside the tale of Shahrazad. The translation is known for its formal register and its footnoted interest in the cultures the stories came from, which gives readers a period text rather than a modern smoothing of it. What distinguishes this copy: • Richard Francis Burton's well-known English translation • A hardcover volume of 654 pages • The nested frame narrative preserved rather than trimmed • Suited to readers who prefer a period translation For classics collectors and students of world literature, published by Wilco International LLP and available at Boipoka.