The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 4.5
Word count
1M words
Chapters
104

Tags

English Originals Folk LiteratureWorld Classics AdventureFate and FortuneLove StoryFolk Tale CollectionOriental FlavorStorytelling Tradition

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 10 by BurtonAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures, Release Date: Sep 1, 2002

Editor's review

This volume is the tenth of Burton's complete English translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, released by Project Gutenberg. As a near-final volume, it continues the nightly narrative framework of The Arabian Nights and later stories; the English translation preserves a mix of verse and prose and the translator's annotations, offering reference value for understanding this story collection's reception in the West. The electronic edition is easy to search in full text and suitable for reading consecutively with Volume 9 to observe story closure and character outcomes. Burton's translation is elegant but has long sentences and dense notes, requiring adaptation to its archaic expressions. Overall, it is not an introductory story selection but research-oriented or collector-oriented reading material, suitable for readers willing to read closely paragraph by paragraph in electronic text, and convenient for comparing how different translations handle the same story.

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Reading tips

  1. Review the ending of Volume 9 before starting this volume to maintain narrative continuity
  2. Browse the translator's notes separately as paratext, then check against the main text
  3. Use electronic search to organize recurring motifs and story types into a brief index
  4. Read one or two night units at a time, allowing time to absorb the archaic expressions

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Contents

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FAQ

Must Volume 10 be read consecutively with Volume 9? Both volumes belong to the later section of Burton's translation, with some continuity of stories and characters. If time permits, reading in volume order is recommended; if reading this volume alone, skim the table of contents and earlier volume summaries first to reduce the sense of broken threads.
Burton's translation has many notes—how should they be handled? The notes contain the translator's explanations of customs, wording, and textual background, and are not equivalent to the original main text. Read the story through first, then revisit relevant notes, or treat the notes as material for understanding a nineteenth-century translator's perspective, avoiding interruption of reading flow from checking every note.
Is this eBook suitable for academic citation? As a public-domain electronic text released by Project Gutenberg, it can be used for general academic citation and textual search. When citing, note the Burton translation, volume, and electronic source, and verify against print or reliable editions where possible to ensure quoted passages and page numbers are accurate.

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