The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Vol 10 (of 10)

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Translator

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

Title

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

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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. 58360

Release Date

November 26, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTS VOLUME X.
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE TENTH VOLUME.
3. 3.MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH.
4. 4.Conclusion.
5. 5.Terminal Essay. — PRELIMINARY. — § I THE ORIGIN OF THE NIGHTS. — A.—The Birthplace. — B.— The Date. — C. — § II. THE NIGHTS IN EUROPE. — § III. THE MATTER AND THE MANNER OF THE NIGHTS. — A.— The Matter. — B.— The Manner of The Nights. — § IV. SOCIAL CONDITION. — A.— Al-Islam. — B.— Woman. — C.— Pornography. — D.— Pederasty. — § V ON THE PROSE-RHYME AND THE POETRY OF THE NIGHTS. — A.— The Saj’a. — B.— The Verse.
6. 6.INDEX.
7. 7.MEMORANDUM.
8. 8.Appendix I. — INDEX I. INDEX TO THE TALES AND PROPER NAMES. — INDEX II. ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE NOTES ( ANTHROPOLOGICAL, &c. ) — INDEX III. —A. ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF FIRST LINES (METRICAL PORTION) IN ENGLISH. — INDEX III. —B. ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF FIRST LINES (METRICAL PORTION) IN ARABIC. — INDEX IV. —A. TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE UNFINISHED CALCUTTA (1814–18) EDITION (FIRST TWO HUNDRED NIGHTS ONLY) OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT. — INDEX IV. —B. TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE BRESLAU (TUNIS) EDITION OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT, FROM MR. PAYNE’S VERSION. — INDEX IV. —C. TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE MACNAGHTEN OR TURNER-MACAN TEXT (1839–42) AND BULAK EDITION (A.H. 1251 = A.D. 1835–36) OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT; AS TRANSLATED BY MR. JOHN PAYNE. — INDEX IV. —D. COMPARISON OF THE SAME WITH MR. LANE’S AND MY VERSION.
9. 9.Appendix II. — CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, AND THEIR IMITATIONS, WITH A TABLE SHOWING THE CONTENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF THE NIGHTS. — GALLAND’S MS. AND TRANSLATION. — CAZOTTE’S CONTINUATION, AND THE COMPOSITE EDITIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. — THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE STORY OF SAIF ZUL YEZN (ZU’L YAZAN) ACCORDING TO HABICHT’S GERMAN VERSION. — SCOTT’S MSS. AND TRANSLATIONS. — WEIL’S TRANSLATION. — VON HAMMER’S MS., AND THE TRANSLATIONS DERIVED FROM IT. — TRANSLATIONS OF THE PRINTED TEXTS. — COLLECTIONS OF SELECTED TALES. — SEPARATE EDITIONS OF SINGLE OR COMPOSITE TALES. — 6 e (ee).— The Barber’s Fifth Brother. — 5.— Nur Al-Din and Badr Al-Din Hasan. — 7.— Nur Al Din and Anis Al-Jalis. — 9.— King Omar Bin Al-Nu’aman. — 133.— Sindbad the Seaman. — 135.— The Craft and Malice of Women. — 136.— Judar and his Brethren. — 174.— The Ten Vazirs. — 248.— The Wise Heycar. — TRANSLATIONS OF COGNATE ORIENTAL ROMANCES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE NIGHTS. — 1 Les Mille et un Jours. Contes Persanes. — The Story of Jewad. — DR. CLARKE’S MS. — IMITATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS HAVING MORE OR LESS CONNECTION WITH THE NIGHTS. — A.— French. — B.— English. — C.— German. — CONCLUSION. — COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE TALES IN THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, viz. :—
10. 10.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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