Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Vol 1 (of 6)

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Translator

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

Title

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Richard Hulse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures

Subject

Fairy tales -- Arab countries

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59156

Release Date

March 30, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.upplemental ights TO THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night WITH NOTES ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY VOLUME I.
2. 2.THE TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD.
3. 3.CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
4. 4.THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER. [1] — STORY OF THE LARRIKIN [11] AND THE COOK .”
5. 5.THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS. [85]
6. 6.AL-HAJJAJ AND THE THREE YOUNG MEN. [117]
7. 7.HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE WOMAN OF THE BARMECIDES. [124]
8. 8.THE TEN WAZIRS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON. [130] — OF THE USELESSNESS OF ENDEAVOUR AGAINST PERSISTENT ILL FORTUNE. — THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT WHO LOST HIS LUCK. [149] — OF LOOKING TO THE ENDS OF AFFAIRS. — THE TALE OF THE MERCHANT AND HIS SONS .” [157] — OF THE ADVANTAGES OF PATIENCE. [164] — THE STORY OF ABU SABIR .” — OF THE ILL EFFECTS OF IMPATIENCE. — THE STORY OF PRINCE BIHZAD .” [176] — OF THE ISSUES OF GOOD AND EVIL ACTIONS. — THE STORY OF KING DADBIN AND HIS WAZIRS .” [185] — OF TRUST IN ALLAH. — THE STORY OF KING BAKHTZAMAN .” [201] — OF CLEMENCY. — THE STORY OF KING BIHKARD .” [206] — OF ENVY AND MALICE. — THE STORY OF AYLAN SHAH AND ABU TAMMAM .” [210] — OF DESTINY OR THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN ON THE FOREHEAD. — THE STORY OF KING IBRAHIM AND HIS SON .” [222] — OF THE APPOINTED TERM, [229] WHICH, IF IT BE ADVANCED, MAY NOT BE DEFERRED, AND IF IT BE DEFERRED, MAY NOT BE ADVANCED. — THE STORY OF KING SULAYMAN SHAH AND HIS NIECE . [231] ” — OF THE SPEEDY RELIEF OF ALLAH. — THE STORY OF THE PRISONER AND HOW ALLAH GAVE HIM RELIEF .” [251]
9. 9.JA’AFAR BIN YAHYA AND ABD AL-MALIK BIN SALIH THE ABBASIDE. [258]
10. 10.AL-RASHID AND THE BARMECIDES. [269]
11. 11.IBN AL-SAMMAK AND AL-RASHID. [280]
12. 12.AL-MAAMUN AND ZUBAYDAH. [282]
13. 13.AL-NU’UMAN AND THE ARAB OF THE BANU TAY. [287]
14. 14.FIRUZ AND HIS WIFE. [293]
15. 15.KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN. [295] — THE TALE OF THE MAN OF KHORASAN, HIS SON AND HIS TUTOR . — TALE OF THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST .” — THE TALE OF THE KING WHO KENNED THE QUINTESSENCE [334] OF THINGS .” — THE TALE OF THE RICHARD WHO MARRIED HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER TO THE POOR OLD MAN .” — THE TALE OF THE SAGE AND HIS THREE SONS .” [355] — THE TALE OF THE PRINCE WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE PICTURE .” — THE TALE OF THE FULLER AND HIS WIFE AND THE TROOPER .” [362] — THE TALE OF THE MERCHANT, THE CRONE, AND THE KING .” — THE TALE OF THE SIMPLETON HUSBAND .” [371] — THE TALE OF THE UNJUST KING AND THE TITHER .” — THE STORY OF DAVID AND SOLOMON .” — THE TALE OF THE ROBBER AND THE WOMAN .” — THE TALE OF THE THREE MEN AND OUR LORD ISA .” — THE DISCIPLE’S STORY . — THE TALE OF THE DETHRONED RULER WHOSE REIGN AND WEALTH WERE RESTORED TO HIM .” — THE TALE OF THE MAN WHOSE CAUTION SLEW HIM .” — THE TALE OF THE MAN WHO WAS LAVISH OF HIS HOUSE AND HIS PROVISION TO ONE WHOM HE KNEW NOT .” — THE TALE OF THE MELANCHOLIST AND THE SHARPER .” [409] — THE TALE OF KHALBAS AND HIS WIFE AND THE LEARNED MAN .” — THE TALE OF THE DEVOTEE ACCUSED OF LEWDNESS .” [415] — THE TALE OF THE HIRELING AND THE GIRL .” — THE TALE OF THE WEAVER WHO BECAME A LEACH BY ORDER OF HIS WIFE .” — THE TALE OF THE TWO SHARPERS WHO EACH COZENED HIS COMPEER .” — THE TALE OF THE SHARPERS WITH THE SHROFF [474] AND THE ASS .” — THE TALE OF THE CHEAT AND THE MERCHANTS .” — THE STORY OF THE FALCON AND THE LOCUST . [485] — THE TALE OF THE KING AND HIS CHAMBERLAIN’S WIFE .” [488] — THE STORY OF THE CRONE AND THE DRAPER’S WIFE .” [490] — THE TALE OF THE UGLY MAN AND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE .” — THE TALE OF THE KING WHO LOST KINGDOM AND WIFE AND WEALTH AND ALLAH RESTORED THEM TO HIM .” [508] — THE TALE OF SALIM, THE YOUTH OF KHORASAN AND SALMA, HIS SISTER .” — THE TALE OF THE KING OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR .”
16. 16.SHAHRAZAD AND SHAHRYAR.
17. 17.INDEX.
18. 18.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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