The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 01: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night - 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 Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 01 translated by Richard Francis Burton. Read by CalmDragon, Gesine, hefyd, Kalynda, Priya, India, Melissa, Ransom, Anna Simon R. S. Steinberg, Peter Yearsley and Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit. This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, 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 first of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. (Based on Wikipedia article) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 01
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 13:39:40

Catalogue topics

• the book of a thousand nights and one night
• 1001 nights
• Burton
• Shahrazad
• Shahryar
• tales

Track guide

1. 01 - Section One — 33:55
2. 02 - Section Two — 40:43
3. 03 - Section Three — 38:00
4. 04 - Section Four — 32:25
5. 05 - Section Five — 39:35
6. 06 - Section Six — 35:03
7. 07 - Section Seven — 35:58
8. 08 - Section Eight — 35:00
9. 09 - Section Nine — 37:37
10. 10 - Section Ten — 31:20
11. 11 - Section Eleven — 34:29
12. 12 - Section Twelve — 34:11
13. 13 - Section Thirteen — 37:47
14. 14 - Section Fourteen — 34:15
15. 15 - Section Fifteen — 37:09
16. 16 - Section Sixteen — 34:37
17. 17 - Section Seventeen — 30:19
18. 18 - Section Eighteen — 34:12
19. 19 - Section Nineteen — 34:39
20. 20 - Section Twenty — 36:12
21. 21 - Section Twenty One — 33:35
22. 22 - Section Twenty-Two — 40:40
23. 23 - Section Twenty-Three — 37:55

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