The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01, credited to Anonymous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of "The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01", by Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott. The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Scheherazade agrees to marry him and each night, beginning on the night of their marriage, she tells the king a tale but does not end it so that the king keeps her alive in order to hear the next tale. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred tales, while others include 1001 or more stories and "nights." Well known stories from the Nights include Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. (Summary from Wikipedia) This edition is a translation by Dr. Jonathan Scott.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 13:29:30

Catalogue topics

• English
• Arabian
• myths
• Alladin
• Ali Baba
• Sinbad
• 1001

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 00 - The Publisher's Preface — 2:55
2. 01 - The Arabian Nights Entertainments — 36:23
3. 02 - The Ass, the Ox, and the Labourer — 16:34
4. 03 - The Merchant and the Genie — 14:33
5. 04 - The Story of the First Old Man and the Hind — 12:48
6. 05 - The Story of the Second Old Man and the Two Black Dogs — 12:25
7. 06 - The Story of the Fisherman — 22:07
8. 07 - The Story of the Grecian King and the Physician Douban — 8:13
9. 08 - The Story of the Husband and the Parrot — 5:07
10. 09 - The Story of the Vizier that was Punished — 30:49
11. 10 - The History of the Young King of the Black Isles — 30:26
12. 11 - Story of the Three Calend — 40:17
13. 12 - The History of the First Calender — 19:00
14. 13 - The Story of the Second C — 28:39
15. 14 - The Story of the Envious Man, and of him that he Envied — 34:32
16. 15 - The History of the Third Calender, part a — 30:21
17. 16 - The History of the Third Calender, part b — 34:17
18. 17 - The Story of Zobeide — 25:28
19. 18 - The Story of Amene — 21:39
20. 19 - The Story of Sinbad the Voyager — 7:33
21. 20 - The First Voyage — 15:35
22. 21 - The Second Voyage — 15:12
23. 22 - The Third Voyage — 20:12
24. 23 - The Fourth Voyage — 23:14

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