The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night novel. A total of 542 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction. During my long years of official banishment to the
- 501 [FN#426] Anglo-Indice "Mucuddum"=overseer, etc., vol. iv. 42.[FN#427] i.e. is not beyond our reach.[FN#428] In text "Ya Sultan-am" with the Persian or Turkish suffixed possessional p.r.o.noun.[FN#429] In text "mal," for which
- 502 [FN#471] In text "Kas'at (=a wooden platter, bowl) afrukah." [The "Mafrukah," an improvement upon the Fatirah, is a favourite dish with the Badawi, of which Dozy quotes lengthy descriptions from Vansleb and Thevenot. The latter is
- 503 ["Ittawwah" seems to be the modern Egyptian 5th form of "Tauh."In cla.s.sical Arabic it would be "tatawwah," but in the dialect of to-day the prefix becomes "it," whose final dental here a.s.similates with the initi
- 504 [FN#557] I write "Cafilah" and not "Cafila" with the unjustifiable suppression of the final "h" which is always made sensible in the pure p.r.o.nunciation of the Badawi. The malpractice has found favour chiefly through the ad
- 505 [FN#600] In the text "Shashmah," from Pers. "Chashmah" a fountain; applied in Egypt to the small privies with slab and hole; vol. i. 221.[FN#601] [In Ar. "Unsak," an expression princ.i.p.ally used when drinking to one's
- 506 Supplemental Nights.Volume 16.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This volume has been ent.i.tled "THE NEW ARABIAN 1 NIGHTS," a name now hackneyed because applied to its contents as far back as 1819 in Henry Weber's "Tales of the East"
- 507 We here begin,[FN#184] with the aidance of Allah Almighty, and invite the History of the Tarjumanah[FN#185] and the Kahramanah[FN#186] and the young man, the King's son, and whatso happed between them of controversy and of contention and interrogatio
- 508 10. This prepares us for the second query, which you proposed, that is as to the numbers who joined in the Exodus.The Masoretic text, from which the English version of the Hebrew records is made, gives the result of the census at Sinai (=h.o.r.eb) as bein
- 509 HISTORY OF WHAT BEFEL THE FOWL-LET WITH THE FOWLER Here we begin to invite the History of what befel the Fowl-let from the Fowler.[FN#281]They relate (but Allah is All-knowing) that there abode in Baghdad-city a huntsman-wight in venerie trained aright. N
- 510 "And where didst alight?" "In the house of one Attaf hight,"rejoined Ja'afar, who recounted all that his host had done with him from the beginning to the end. The Prince of True Believers took patience, until he had told his story
- 511 We continued to exchange upon the borders of its gardens the flowing bowls of conversation and of poesy, The valley was bountiful and her zephyrs brought to us what the flowers had sent to us.So when the youth had finished his recitation he turned to the
- 512 AND WHAT BEFEL HIM WITH THE LADY DURRAT AL-GHAWWAS.Here we begin to indite the history of Sultan Habib and of what befel him with Durrat al-Ghawwas.[FN#378]It is related (but Allah is All-knowing of His unknown and All- cognisant of what took place and fo
- 513 So the Sultan Habib read over these verses more than once, and wept till he swooned away; then recovering himself he said in his mind, "To me death were pleasanter than life without my love!" and turning to the closets which lay right and left h
- 514 The enchanted palaces of the Firm Island, with their prodigies of the Hart and the Dogs, &c., may also be mentioned (Amadis of Gaul, book II., chap. 21, &c.).Pp. 107, 108.--Stories of changed s.e.x are not uncommon in Eastern and cla.s.sical mythology and
- 515 Barber and the Captain, The Cairenne Youth, the, v.Barber's Boy and the Greedy Sultan, Story of the Darwaysh and the, v.Barmecides, Al-Ras.h.i.+d and the, i.Barmecides,. Harun Al-Ras.h.i.+d and the Woman of the, i.Beautiful Daughter to the Poor Old M
- 516 History of King Azadbakht and his Son, The Ten Wazirs; or the, i.History of what befel the Fowl with the Fowler, vi.Hireling and the Girl, Tale of the, i.How Allah gave him relief, Story of the Prisoner and, i.How Drummer Abu Kasim became a Kazi, iv.Husba
- 517 Quintessence of things, Tale of the King who kenned the, i.Richard, Tale of the, who married his beautiful daughter to the Poor Old Man, i.Righteous Wazir wrongfully gaoled, The, v.Robber and the Woman, Tale of the, i.Sage and his Three Sons, Tale of the,
- 518 Young Cook of Baghdad, Tale of the Warlock and the, vi. Young Sayyid, History of Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and the, v. Youth Manjab, Night Adventure of Harun Al-Ras.h.i.+d and the, v. Youth who would futter his fathers wives, Story of the, v. Yusuf, The Loves o
- 519 Zotenberg's Work on Aladdin and on Various Ma.n.u.scripts of the Nights.One of the most important works which has appeared lately in connection with the Thousand and One Nights, is the following: Histoire d' 'Ala Al-Din ou la Lampe Merveill
- 520 Then follow notices of Anderson's MS., used by Scott, but which cannot now be traced the Calcutta edition of the first 200 Nights; and of the Wortley Montague MS. These form M. Zotenberg's third group of MSS.M. Zotenberg does not enter into the
- 521 Lady Burton's Edition of her husband's Arabian Nights, translated literally from the Arabic, prepared for household reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy, M.P., London, Waterlow and Sons, Roy. 8vo. 6 vols.In preparing this edition for the press, as
- 522 The Second Story Teller.The Third Story Teller.III. Prince Khalaf and the Princess of China Story of Prince Al-Abbas.Story of Liri-in.IV. The Wise Dey.V. The Tunisian Sage.VI. The Nose for Gold.VII. The Treasures of Basra.History of Aboulca.s.sem.VIII. Th
- 523 10. Contes Arabes Modernes, recueillis et traduits par Guillaume Spitta-Bey.8vo., Leyden and Paris, 1883.This book contains 12 orally collected tales of such great importance from a folk-lore point of view that I have given full abstracts of all. They are
- 524 The Biography of the Book and Its Reviewers Reviewed.[" It has occurred to me that perhaps it would be a good plan to put a set of notes . . . to the 'Origin,' which now has none, exclusively devoted to the errors of my reviewers. It has occurred to me
- 525 No subscriptions will be until the work is done, and then at Coutts' Bank, Strand London.Subscribers who apply directly are preferred.The author will pay carriage of volumes all over the United Kingdom. A London address is requested.And, lastly, after so
- 526 Hard upon these "revelations" came the Eliza Armstrong case whereby the editor of the "s.e.xual Gazette" stultified thoroughly and effectually his own a.s.sertions; and proved most satisfactorily, to the injury of his own person, that the easiest thin
- 527 It has been circulated widely enough by the Lane-Poole clique--poules mouillees they are called by an Arabist friend--that I do not know Arabic. Let me at once plead guilty to the charge, adding by way of circonstance attenuante that I know none who does
- 528 But the critic has been grandly deceptive, either designedly or of ignorance prepense in his arithmetic. "There are over four hundred of these (anecdotes, fables, and stories) in the complete text, and Lane has not translated more than two hundred" (p.
- 529 The first quotation is so far changed that the peppering of commas (three to the initial line of the original) disappears to the reader's gain, Lane's textual date (App. 263) is also exchanged for that of the notes (A.H. 653); and the "aera of Alexande
- 530 Farewell!Richard F. Burton United Service Club, September 30, 1888.Opinions of the Press.Morning Advertiser, September 15th, 1885.As the holiday season draws to a close the publishers' announcements of "new books" fill column after column of the organs
- 531 It is a marvel that these cadences have never been reproduced before. They have been faintly attempted by Eastwick, in his "Gulistan," whilst Mr. Payne simply pa.s.sed them over, rejected them as of no account. They fall in with Captain Burton's plan o
- 532 [FN#36] The simplicity of old a.s.syrian correspondence is here well preserved, as we may see by comparing those letters with the cuneiform inscriptions, etc., by S. Abden Smith (Pfeiffer, Leipsic, 1887). One of them begins thus, "The will of the King to
- 533 [FN#80] With this formula compare Chaucer, "The Manciple's Tale."[FN#81] In the text "Znnakt-ha," which is unintelligible, although the sense be clear.[FN#82] A bird unknown to the dictionaries, apparently a species of hawk.[FN#83
- 534 [FN#124] "Al-Natur," the keeper, esp. of a vineyard, a word naturalized in Persian. The Caliph asks, Is this a bon> fide affair and hast thou the power to settle the matter definitely?M. Houdas translates as Les raisins sont-ils a toi, ou bie
- 535 [FN#166] i.e. a witch; see vol. viii. 131.[FN#167] So in the phrase "Otbah hath the colic," first said concerning Otbah b. Rabi'a by Abu Jahl when the former advised not marching upon Badr to attack Mohammed. Tabari, vol. ii. 491.[FN#168] C
- 536 [FN#200] It is nowhere said in Hebrew Holy Writ that "Pharaoh,"whoever he may have been, was drowned in the "Red Sea."[FN#201] Arab. "Kaml." The Koranic legend of the Ant has, I repeat, been charmingly commented upon by Edwin
- 537 [FN#239] In text, "Mutasa'lik" for "Moutasa'lik" = like a "sa'luk."[FN#240] For this "high-spirited Prince and n.o.ble-minded lord"see vol. ix. 229.[FN#241] In text "Bisata-hum" = their carp
- 538 [FN#278] In text "Al-Kawani"=the spears, plur. of "Kanat." ["Al- Kawani" as plural of a singular "Kanat"=spear would be, I think, without a.n.a.logy amongst the plural formations, and its translation by "punish
- 539 See vol. i. 234, where it is called Al-Hasa = the Plain of Pebbles.[FN#318] Heron names him Chebib (Habib) also "Xakem Tai-Chebib"= Hatim Tayy Habib.[FN#319] The scene is described at full length in the Cotheal MS. with much poetry sung by a fai
- 540 [FN#362] In text "al-Towab," Arab. plur. of the Persian and Turk. "Top." We hardly expected to find ordinance in the age of Harun al-Ras.h.i.+d, although according to Milton they date before the days of Adam.[FN#363] M. Houdas would re
- 541 [FN#407] The "Miskal" (for which see vols. i. 126; ix. 262) is the weight of a dinar = 1 dirham = 71-72 grains avoir. A dose of 142 grains would kill a camel. In 1848, when we were marching up the Indus Valley under Sir Charles Napier to attack Nao Mall
- 542 I have carefully noted these lapses and incongruities: not the less, however, I thoroughly appreciate the general excellence of the workmans.h.i.+p, and especially the imaginative scenery and the architectural designs of Mr. W. Harvey. He has shown the wo