The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
John Payne · English
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
John Payne · English
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PREFATORY NOTE. The present is, I believe, the first complete translation of the great Arabic compendium of romantic fiction that has been attempted in any European language comprising about four times as much matter as that of Galland and three times as much as that of any other translator known to myself; and a short statement of the sources from which it is derived may therefore be acceptable to my readers. Three printed editions, more or less complete, exist of the Arabic text of t
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