The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11


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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, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the eleventh of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. (10 hr 54 min)

Chapters

Dedication & Translator's Foreword 5:27 Read by Foon
The Sleeper and the Waker 6:58 Read by Foon
Story of the Larrikin and the Cook, part 1 38:28 Read by mlcui
Story of the Larrikin and the Cook, part 2 30:12 Read by mlcui
The Caliph Omar Bin Adb al-Aziz and the Poets 6:58 Read by Michael Muransky
Al-Hajjaj and the Three Young Men 3:05 Read by Kristine Bekere
Harun al-Rashid and the Woman of the Barmecides 3:08 Read by Kristine Bekere
The Ten Wazirs: Or the History of King Azadbakht and his Son 13:50 Read by Aparna Bhat
The First Day 17:15 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Second Day 15:07 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Third Day 17:54 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Fourth Day 8:46 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Fifth Day 20:19 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Sixth Day 12:21 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Seventh Day 8:13 Read by Aparna Bhat
The Eighth Day 17:46 Read by Gracicah
The Ninth Day 17:49 Read by Gracicah
The Tenth Day, part 1 24:10 Read by TriciaG
The Tenth Day, part 2 22:55 Read by Murphy8104
The Eleventh Day 10:12 Read by issamel
Ja'afar bin Yahya and Abd al-Malik bin Salith the Abbaside 6:54 Read by Amatullah Talks
Al-Rashid and the Barmecides 3:28 Read by Sunil Goswami
Ibn al-Sammak and al-Rashid 1:49 Read by KevinS
Al-Maamun and Zubaydah 2:10 Read by diazgeorge00
Al-Nu'uman and the Arab of the Banu Tay 5:18 Read by Candace Tuttle
Firuz and his Wife 7:32 Read by pianoroll262
King Shah Bakht and his Wazir al-Rahwan 4:34 Read by rewohwrew
The First Night of the Month 19:41 Read by Foon
The Second Night of the Month 13:54 Read by sachinV
The Third Night of the Month 15:03 Read by Jane Bennett
The Fourth Night of the Month 10:35 Read by chuckconvr
The Fifth Night of the Month 9:19 Read by Vivianlyu
The Sixth Night of the Month 9:19 Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Seventh Night of the Month 7:19 Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Eighth Night of the Month 7:05 Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Ninth Night of the Month 4:34 Read by diazgeorge00
The Tenth Night of the Month 8:01 Read by rewohwrew
The Eleventh Night of the Month 6:21 Read by ChadH94
The Twelfth Night of the Month 3:58 Read by diazgeorge00
The Thirteenth Night of the Month 9:55 Read by issamel
The Fourteenth Night of the Month 2:19 Read by diazgeorge00
The Fifteenth Night of the Month 7:25 Read by Daniel Chao
The Sixteenth Night of the Month 5:09 Read by diazgeorge00
The Seventeenth Night of the Month 5:06 Read by diazgeorge00
The Eighteenth Night of the Month 18:49 Read by Murphy8104
The Nineteenth Night of the Month 7:20 Read by Paul Fleischman
The Twentieth Night of the Month 11:29 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Twenty-First Night of the Month 17:48 Read by Murphy8104
The Twenty-Second Night of the Month 7:55 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Twenty-Third Night of the Month 10:51 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Twenty-Fourth Night of the Month 12:51 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Twenty-Fifth Night of the Month 6:26 Read by Lisa Stump
The Twenty-Sixth Night of the Month 28:12 Read by Diana Therriault
The Twenty-Seventh Night of the Month, part 1 25:58 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Twenty-Seventh Night of the Month, part 2 17:10 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Twenty-Eighth and Last Night of the Month 7:31 Read by Foon
Shahrazad and Shahryar 4:27 Read by Foon