The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) — Volume 06

LibriVox recording of The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) — Volume 06 translated by Richard Francis Burton. This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to pr