The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, credited to Andrew Lang, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was translated from the Arabic — first into French and then into English and other European languages. The first English language edition, based on Galland's French rather than the original Arabic, rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment - and this, or simply The Arabian Nights, has been the title by which it has been best known to English-speaking people ever since. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 10:34:09

Catalogue topics

• children
• fiction
• stories
• arabian nights
• entertainment
• lang
• audio books

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Preface — 5:39
2. 01 - The Arabian Nights — 7:07
3. 02 - The Story of the Merchant and the Genius — 7:50
4. 03 - The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind — 6:09
5. 04 - The Story of the Second Old Man and of the Two Black Dogs — 6:01
6. 05 - The Story of the Fisherman — 6:11
7. 06 - The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban — 4:53
8. 07 - The Story of the Husband and the Parrot — 3:33
9. 08 - The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished — 16:57
10. 09 - The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles — 6:04
11. 10 - The Story of the Three Calendars, Sons of Kings and of Five Ladies of Bagdad — 19:49
12. 11 - The Story of the First Calendar, Son of a King — 11:18
13. 12 - The Story of the Second Calendar, Son of a King — 14:56
14. 13 - The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied — 25:31
15. 14 - The Story of the Third Calendar, Son of a King — 27:56
16. 15 - The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor — 6:59
17. 16 - First Voyage — 11:30
18. 17 - Second Voyage — 13:02
19. 18 - Third Voyage — 14:37
20. 19 - Fourth Voyage — 13:48
21. 20 - Fifth Voyage — 10:49
22. 21 - Sixth Voyage — 13:05
23. 22 - Seventh and Last Voyage — 10:53
24. 23 - The Little Hunchback — 15:34

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