The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments; Volume 9 of 16

The Arabian Nights #9 of 16

by Anonymous, Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

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Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Fairy Tales

390 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 2015

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Reviews

[James F · Rating 2 out of 5]

Almost to the end of the Nights, these stories were written later than the others and show a falling off of interest; many are near duplicates, especially the last one which is almost identical to the First Lady of Baghdad's tale, but with a male rather than female protagonist. There is also an increase in the overall misogyny of the tales.

The proofreading in this book is alright except for the replacement of characters with accents by Cyrillic letters, "a" with acute accent by Cyrillic "b", "i" with accent by Cyrillic "n" and so forth, probably because they seemed to have that shape to the OCR program they used.. After a while I could guess the original spellings, and it mainly affects proper names and Arabic words in the notes, but it was very annoying in a Project Gutenberg book. (Review of the Project Gutenberg e-book, not necessarily the same edition listed on Goodreads.)

[Hazel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the best volume since volume 1. There are many tales in this book that are just as good as the famous ones from collections of the nights, and is the first volume I would recommend for a read outside of those stories (most of them contained in volume 1 along with some other good tales not found in collections)

It suffers from poor book making practices like many of the others. By which I mean that it starts in the middle of a story that began in the last volume. It also ends with a mere 12 nights left. They could readily have been fitted into this volume, as it is not the thickest of the volumes.