BURTON’S ARABIAN NIGHTS

Book 8 of the Original 10

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night {commonly referenced as Arabian 1,001 Nights}

With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights

VOLUME 8

By: Richard F. Burton

Copyright: 1885; this version is not dated, but from research seems to be from the early 1900s.

This Hard Cover book (359 pages) is in Very Good condition inside and out.  Interior is tight.  No blemishes or marks other than a slight natural age-toning to pages.  Cover displays very well with very light rubbing to corners and spine ends.

Extremely collectible in very good condition!

About Book (Wikipedia):

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is an English language translation of 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 (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the "Arabian Nights" until the Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons translation in 2008.

Burton's translation was one of two unabridged and unexpurgated English translations done in the 1880s; the first was by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–84, nine volumes). Burton's ten volume version was published almost immediately afterward with a slightly different title. This, along with the fact that Burton closely advised Payne and partially based his books on Payne's, led later to charges of plagiarism. Owing to the sexual imagery in the source texts (which Burton made a special study of, adding extensive footnotes and appendices on "Oriental" sexual mores) and to the strict Victorian laws on obscene material, both translations were printed as private editions for subscribers only, rather than being published in the usual manner. Burton's original ten volumes were followed by a further six entitled The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (1886–88). Burton's 16 volumes, while boasting many prominent admirers, have been criticized for their "archaic language and extravagant idiom" and "obsessive focus on sexuality;" they have even been called an "eccentric ego-trip" and a "highly personal reworking of the text". His voluminous and obscurely detailed notes and appendices have been characterized as “obtrusive, kinky and highly personal”.

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