The Arabian nights: tales from a Thousand and one nights

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Robert Louis Stevenson called it a "a book that captivates in childhood and delights in age.";Bennett Cerf selected the tales in this edition in 1932 for the Modern Library as the "most famous and representative" from the multivolume translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton.;Story of King Shahryar and his brother -- The fisherman and the Jinni -- The porter and the three ladies of Baghdad -- The tale of the three apples -- Tale of Nur Al-Din and his son Badr Al-Din Hasan -- Tale of Ghanim Bi Ayyub, the distraught, the thrall o' love -- The tale of the birds and beasts and the carpenter -- The hermits -- The tale of Kamar Al-Zaman -- Hatim of the tribe of Tayy -- The taled of Ma'an son of Zaidah and the Badawi -- The city of many-columned Iram and Abdullah son of Abi Kalibah -- The sweep and the noble laldy -- Ali the Persian -- The man who stole the dish of gold wherein the dog ate -- The ruined man who became rich again through a dream -- The ebony horse -- How Abu Hasan brake wind -- The angel of death with the proud king and the devout man -- Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the landsman -- The city of brass -- The lady and her five suitors -- Judar and his brethren -- Julnar the sea-born and her son King Badr Basim of Persia -- Khalifah the fisherman of Baghdad -- Abu Kir the dyer and Abu Sir the barber -- The sleeper and the waker -- Alaeddin; or, the wonderful lamp -- Ali Baba and the forty thieves -- Ma'aruf the cobbler and his wife Fatimah. Story of King Shahryar and his brother -- The fisherman and the Jinni -- The porter and the three ladies of Baghdad -- The tale of the three apples -- Tale of Nur Al-Din and his son Badr Al-Din Hasan -- Tale of Ghanim Bi Ayyub, the distraught, the thrall o' love -- The tale of the birds and beasts and the carpenter -- The hermits -- The tale of Kamar Al-Zaman -- Hatim of the tribe of Tayy -- The taled of Ma'an son of Zaidah and the Badawi -- The city of many-columned Iram and Abdullah son of Abi Kalibah -- The sweep and the noble laldy -- Ali the Persian -- The man who stole the dish of gold wherein the dog ate -- The ruined man who became rich again through a dream -- The ebony horse -- How Abu Hasan brake wind -- The angel of death with the proud king and the devout man -- Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the landsman -- The city of brass -- The lady and her five suitors -- Judar and his brethren -- Julnar the sea-born and her son King Badr Basim of Persia -- Khalifah the fisherman of Baghdad -- Abu Kir the dyer and Abu Sir the barber -- The sleeper and the waker -- Alaeddin or, the wonderful lamp -- Ali Baba and the forty thieves -- Ma'aruf the cobbler and his wife Fatimah.