Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Annotated) written by Burton, Richard Francis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated 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).