The Bakhtyār Nāma

About this eBook

Editor

Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896

Title

The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance

Credits

E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures

Subject

Persian poetry -- Translations into English

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60316

Release Date

September 17, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BAKHTYĀR NĀMA: A PERSIAN ROMANCE. TRANSLATED FROM A MANUSCRIPT TEXT ,
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. — I—ORIENTAL FICTIONS—THE ARABIAN NIGHTS—THE BOOK OF SINDIBĀD. — II—THE BAKHTYĀR NĀMA AND ITS VERSIONS.
5. 5.THE BAKHTYĀR NĀMA. — CHAPTER I. — HISTORY OF KING ĀZĀDBAKHT AND THE VIZIER’S DAUGHTER. — CHAPTER II. — STORY OF THE ILL-FATED MERCHANT, AND HIS ADVENTURES. — CHAPTER III. — STORY OF THE IMPATIENT PRINCE OF ALEPPO. — CHAPTER IV. — STORY OF ABŪ SABER; OR, THE PATIENT MAN. — CHAPTER V. — STORY OF THE KING OF YEMEN AND HIS SLAVE ABRAHA. — CHAPTER VI. — STORY OF KING DĀDĪN AND HIS TWO VIZIERS. — CHAPTER VII. — STORY OF THE KING OF ABYSSINIA, SHOWING THE ARTIFICE OF WOMEN. — CHAPTER VIII. — STORY OF THE JEWEL-MERCHANT. — CHAPTER IX. — STORY OF ABŪ TEMĀM. — CHAPTER X. — STORY OF THE KING OF PERSIA. — CONCLUSION.
6. 6.NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. — Notes on Chapter I. — Notes on Chapter II. — Notes on Chapter III. — Notes on Chapter IV. — Notes on Chapter V. — Notes on Chapter VI. — HISTORY OF THE FIFTH DAY. — Notes on Chapter VII. — Notes on Chapter VIII. — Notes on Chapter IX. — Notes on Chapter X. — Notes on Conclusion. — Additional Notes. — Arabian Version of Abū Temām’s Mission. — Arabian Version of the Conclusion of the Romance.
7. 7.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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