The complete online text of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Richard Francis Burton.

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), English explorer, scholar, poet, translator, and diplomat, explored in Africa and Asia and studied Oriental literature and American religions. Richard Burton was born on March 19, 1821, in the west of England into...

Sir Richard Francis Burton was the preeminent nineteenth-century British travel writer, a brilliant linguist and translator, an extraordinary explorer, a pioneer anthropologist, a poet, a civil engineer, a field cartographer, a soldier one of Europe's be...

Sir Richard F. Burton, one of the most widely traveled, best read, and most fascinating of Victorian adventurers, was a prolific writer who left enduring accounts of his journeys in India, Arabia, Africa, and North America. He brought to his scholarship...

The Arabian Nights: The Frame Tale The tales and even the frame story of The Arabian Nights have their roots in many countries: India, China, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, and Greece. Scholars contend that the stories circulated orally from the...

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة - kitāb 'alf laylah wa-laylah; Persian: هزار و یک شب - ḥezār-o yak šab; also known (inaccurately) as The Arabian Nights) is a collection of stories collected over...

When Robert Mapplethorpe turned his camera on friends and lovers, the results were revealing in more ways than the photographer intended. Tim Hilton assesses an icon ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE's life is interesting for a number of reasons, even if...

It is a preposterous title, of course. Should we also look for political thought in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Or in the slapstick films of Laurel and Hardy? Or in Superman comics? Surely, whereas politics is "the art of the possible," The...

In the following essay, Gerhardt studies the motifs, character descriptions, use of dialogue, and structure of The Arabian Nights, noting that it is difficult for a non-Arabist to easily understand the structural nuances of this work.

In the following essay, Mahdi discusses the stylistic origins of the tales in The Arabian Nights, arguing that they comprise a complete and unified text that reworks earlier stories, particularly the 'exemplary tales,' to create the effect of linguistic unity.

In the following excerpt, Beaumont traces the literary history of The Arabian Nights, offering an overview of European translations that he contends have influenced modern versions of the tales, examining the original sources of the stories, and discussing the research and criticism generated a “multiple text” that he considers not at all representative of medieval Arabic literature.

Essay concerns the relationship between gender and power in "1001 Arabian Nights" by Geraldine McCaughrean, and asks readers to consider their classical notions of this relationship. The essay attempts to refute classic notions of the gender-power relationship.

This essay is about Arabian Nights and how curiosity plays an important role throughtout.

Analyzes the book "One Thousand and One Nights." Discusses the treatment of female characters in the story. Describes the female heroine Shahrazad.