The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights, with 27 volumes, includes the complete Richard Burton translation, as well as other translations, plus works inspired by the Arabian Nights.

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Table of Contents

The Thousand Nights and a Night, a plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments by Richard F. Burton, complete

• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8
• volume 9
• volume 10
• supplemental volume 1
• supplemental volume 2
• supplemental volume 3
• supplemental volume 4
• supplemental volume 5
• supplemental volume 6
• The "Aldine" Edition of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, from the text of Dr. Jonathan Scott, four volumes in a single file, 1890
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by John Payne, 1901, first four volumes of the nine volume work
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night not occurring in the other printed texts of the work, translated by John Payne, all three volumes in a single file, 1901
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments, consisting of one thousand and one stories told by the sultaness of the Indies, volume 1 of 2, 1813
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments, selected and edited by Andrew Lang, 1918
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments, from the Windermere Series, 1914
• Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights, first series, edited by E. Dixon, 1893
• A Madison Square Arabian Night, short story by O. Henry
• A Night in New Arabia, short story by O. Henry
• New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Prelude, book 5, by William Wordsworth
• The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade by Edgar Allan Poe