(Volume 13) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband to prevent him from executing her. In translating the Nights, R. F. Burton attempted to invent an English equivalent of medieval Arabic. In doing so, he drew upon Chaucerian English, Elizabethan English, and the 1653 English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart of the first three books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1546). Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:43) Chapter 02 (01:10:31) Chapter 03 (01:57:44) Chapter 04 (02:44:13) Chapter 05 (03:30:49) Chapter 06 (04:18:51) Chapter 07 (05:02:41) Chapter 08 (05:50:39) Chapter 09 (06:26:32) Chapter 10 (07:04:26) Chapter 11 (08:04:04) Chapter 12 (08:58:35) Chapter 13 (09:34:25) Chapter 14 (10:11:51) Chapter 15 (10:37:06) Chapter 16 (11:17:29) Chapter 17 (11:44:22) Chapter 18 (12:23:18) Chapter 19 (13:03:04) Chapter 20 (13:50:40) Chapter 21 (14:20:20) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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