The Arabian Nights, or Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of stories from Arabic literature. The stories became known in Europe through Antoine Galland's translation into French, and Richard Burton provided a famous English translation.
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- Stories from the Thousand and One Nights As translated by Edward William Lane (1909-14) and revised by Stanley Lane-Poole; e-text at Bartleby.
- The Arabian Nights Gateway site to the ASCII text of Sir Richard Burton's unexpurgated translation; includes synopses and commentaries on the tales.
- Arabian Nights Entertainments Text of the adaptation by Andrew Lang, first published in 1898, from Free Public Domain.
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Arabian Nights Article (written circa 1900) about the collection of tales. Includes identification of stories that appear to be from Jewish sources.
- The Thousand Nights and a Night Bibliographic and biographic information about Sir Richard Burton, along with his complete translation, as well as the Scott, Lang, and Lane translations.
- Free Library: The Arabian Nights Free Library online transcriptions of many stories from The Arabian Nights, as translated by Andrew Lang.
- The Arabian Nights Nights Entertainments Text of the adaptation by Andrew Lang after the 1918 edition; e-text from the Project Gutenberg.
- Thousand and One Nights Entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia.
- The Arabian Nights (Alf Layla wa Layla) Text as translated by Sir Richard Burton (1850), from the Middle East and Islamic Collection of Cornell University.
- Arabian Nights Study Guide A much condensed version of some stories from the Arabian Nights, by Diane Thompson.
- The Electronic Literature Foundation: The Arabian Nights The Electronic Literature Foundation's presentation of The Arabian Nights, using translations by Andrew Lang and Sir Richard Burton.