Jonathan Scott (7) (1754–1829)

A nice public domain translation of the all-time classic. These stories include the very familiar (Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin and his lamp), and dozens and dozens that are just as good but that you've never heard. Some are very short, some are very long, and many of them repeat elements from the other stories. Sultans are constantly going out in disguise among the common people and overhearing things; men accidentally catch glimpses of women through their veils and fall so deeply in love that they become ill until they can have their beloved; sultans have no heirs and pray to God that they would do anything for a son, but their heir ends up coming with a catch; comeuppance is rampant; and people tell their stories, and within their stories more characters tell stories in a nesting box of creativity.

Read this one serialized on DailyLit.

[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2012/03/one-thousand-and-one-nights-aka-arabian.ht... ]… (meer)