RICHARD F. BURTON TALES from the BOOK of the THOUSAND NIGHTS and a NIGHT © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments This PDF eBook was produced in the year 2011 by Tantor Media, Incorporated, which holds the copyright thereto. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Contents Publisher’s Note Introduction The Tale of the Bull and the Ass. The Tale of the Trader and the Jinni. The First Shaykh’s Story. The Second Shaykh’s Story. The Third Shaykh’s Story. The Fisherman and the Jinni. The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban. King Sindibad and his Falcon. The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot. The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress. The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince. The Tale of the Three Apples. The Hunchback’s Tale. The Nazarene Broker’s Story. The Reeve’s Tale. The Tale of the Jewish Doctor. The Tale of the Tailor. The Barber’s Tale of Himself. The Barber’s Tale of his First Brother. The Barber’s Tale of his Second Brother. The Barber’s Tale of his Third Brother. The Barber’s Tale of his Fourth Brother. The Barber’s Tale of his Fifth Brother. The Barber’s Tale of his Sixth Brother. 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The Tale of the Water-Fowl and the Tortoise. 2 Publisher’s Note THIS eBook is an edited version of the famed translations of Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard F. Burton. Burton’s translations first appeared in 1884. In all, Burton’s translations run ten volumes long, with five additional “supplemental” volumes released after the original ten volumes. His translations have proven to be among the most popular translations of what has become known as The Arabian Nights. While many familiar with the Arabian Nights think of the tales as those for children, Burton’s translations were and are meant for adult listeners. This Tantor edition contains tales from volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Burton’s original translations. Tantor plans future editions of Burton’s translations of Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, so please visit our Web site, www.tantor.com, for more information about future editions. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor 3 © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor 4 Introduction ALF LAYLAH WA LAYAH. IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE COMPASSIONATING, THE COMPASSIONATE! PRAISE BE TO ALLAH • THE BENEFICENT KING • THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE • LORD OF THE THREE WORLDS • WHO SET UP THE FIRMAMENT WITHOUT PILLARS IN ITS STEAD • AND WHO STRETCHED OUT THE EARTH EVEN AS A BED • AND GRACE, AND PRAYER-BLESSING BE UPON OUR LORD MOHAMMED • LORD OF APOSTOLIC MEN • AND UPON HIS FAMILY AND COMPANION TRAIN • PRAYER AND BLESSINGS ENDURING AND GRACE WHICH UNTO THE DAY OF DOOM SHALL REMAIN • AMEN! • O THOU OF THE THREE WORLDS SOVEREIGN! AND afterwards. Verily the works and words of those gone before us have become instances and examples to men of our modern day, that folk may view what admonishing chances befel other folk and may therefrom take warning; and that they may peruse the annals of antique peoples and all that hath betided them, and be thereby ruled and restrained:—Praise, therefore, be to Him who hath made the histories of the Past an admonition unto the Present! Now of such instances are the tales called “A Thousand Nights and a Night,” together with their far-famed legends and wonders. Therein it is related (but Allah is All knowing of His hidden things and All-ruling and All-honoured and All-giving and All- gracious and All-merciful!1) that, in tide of yore and in time long gone © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media,before, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantorthere Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media,was Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 aTantor Media, Inc.King © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. ©of 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. ©the 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 TantorKings Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc.of © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc.the © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 TantorBanu Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 TantorSasa Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011n Tantor Media, Inc.in © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc.the © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011Islands Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011of Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor Media, Inc. © 2011 Tantor India and China, a Lord of armies and guards and servants and 1 Allaho A’alam, a deprecatory formula, used because the writer is going to indulge in a series of what may possibly be untruths. 5 dependents.2 He left only two sons, one in the prime of manhood and the other yet a youth, while both were Knights and Braves, albeit the elder was a doughtier horseman than the younger. So he succeeded to the empire; when he ruled the land and forded it over his lieges with justice so exemplary that he was beloved by all the peoples of his capital and of his kingdom. His name was King Shahryar3, and he made his younger brother, Shah Zaman hight, King of Samarcand in Barbarian-land. These two ceased not to abide in their several realms and the law was ever carried out in their dominions; and each ruled his own kingdom, with equity and fair dealing to his subjects, in extreme solace and enjoyment; and this condition continually endured for a score of years. But at the end of the twentieth twelvemonth the elder King yearned for a sight of his younger brother and felt that he must look upon him once more.