1001 Nights (Annotated)

Richard Francis Burton's 1001 Nights, more properly his celebrated rendering of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, gathers the interlaced tales of Shahrazad: romances, voyages, fables, comic intrigues, moral exempla, and supernatural adventures. Burton's prose is archaic, ornate, and deliberately exoticizing, seeking to reproduce what he understood as the texture of medieval Arabic story...