The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 4.5
Word count
922K words
Chapters
93

Tags

English Originals Folk LiteratureWorld Classics Coincidence of FateWorldly WisdomDream NarrativeSatirical HumorOriental TalesFolk Legend

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by BurtonAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures, Release Date: Sep 1, 2002

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This is the Project Gutenberg electronic edition of Volume 07 of Burton's English translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night, also a public-domain resource in the Oriental languages and literatures class. Positioned toward the later part of the whole work, this volume continues to unfold the story cycles, and its balance of frame narrative and interpolated poetry, along with the sense of the characters' fates drawing toward resolution, is worth noting. For researchers, this volume offers a way to observe Burton's annotation habits, lexical choices, and handling of foreign customs; for general readers, it is better entered after prior reading, to appreciate the story-within-story progression. The Gutenberg edition facilitates full-text search and cross-device reading, and is suitable for thematic indexing and motif comparison. Note that this translation bears clear marks of its era and the translator's personal style; some expressions should not be taken directly as ethnographic material, and readers should maintain critical discernment.

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Reading tips

  1. Read alongside character lists or notes from previous volumes to reduce cross-volume confusion.
  2. Mark interpolated poems separately, and after finishing, revisit their function in the story.
  3. Choose two or three stories to read against other translations, noting the translator's additions, omissions, and wording.
  4. Use electronic search to look up motif terms and organize the story types in this volume.

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Contents

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FAQ

Where does Volume 07 stand within the whole book? It is the seventh volume in Burton's translation by volume division, located toward the later part of the work; it carries forward the story cycles of previous volumes and continues the frame narrative. It is neither the opening nor the final volume, so it is best read in connection with the volumes before and after to see the storylines clearly.
Is the Gutenberg edition the same as the paper book? The Gutenberg edition provides the content of this volume as a public-domain electronic text; the main text corresponds to the same volume of the translation, but layout, pagination, and the presentation of some notes may differ from the paper book. Readers should rely on the volume number and translation information rather than page numbers in the paper edition.
What background knowledge is needed to read this volume? A basic understanding of the frame narrative of The Thousand Nights and a Night is enough—that Scheherazade sustains the telling through stories. In addition, some preparedness for the annotation style of a nineteenth-century English translation will help readers adapt to Burton's wording and interlinear notes.

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