Arabian Nights

Sir Richard Burton has said "there is no 'Nights' without the nights," and I agree with him. Without the frame story of the "Thousand Nights and a Night," the stories themselves--while still a fascinating collection of Oriental folklore filled with fine examples of the extemporaneous storyteller's a......more

I would give it five stars if it were longer... One of my favorite tales is not included in Zipe's version here. Nevertheless, these are fascinating stories and not what I was given as a child. There is always violence in the stories, even among the expurgated versions. The originals are more violen......more

I made the same mistake with this as with Grimm's fairy Tales. I read them all one after another. And while some of the stories were amazing, the common themes of murder, greed, racism and misogynism wore me down after a while. Also, the stories within stories within stories...well, it made me a bit......more

The book was great and sensious as well.......more