The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 02: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 02, credited to Anonymous, 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 Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 02 translated by Richard Burton. 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 second of sixteen volumes translated by Burton.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 02
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 15:47:53

Catalogue topics

• fairy tales
• Shahrazad
• 1001 nights

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis — 15:52
2. 02 - Thirty-fifth Night — 32:54
3. 03 - Thirty-sixth Night — 15:09
4. 04 - Thirty-seventh Night — 27:07
5. 05 - Thirty-eighth Night — 21:36
6. 06 - Thirty-ninth Night — 19:10
7. 07 - Fortieth Night — 18:17
8. 08 - Forty-first night — 22:36
9. 09 - Forty-second Night — 10:46
10. 10 - Forty-third Night, Forty-fourth Night — 13:04
11. 11 - Forty-fifth Night — 19:05
12. 12 - Forty-sixth Night — 14:02
13. 13 - Forty-seventh Night — 25:14
14. 14 - Forty-eighth Night — 10:38
15. 15 - The Forty-ninth Night — 20:36
16. 16 - Fiftieth Night — 37:19
17. 17 - Fifty-first Night — 25:34
18. 18 - Fifty-second Night, Fifty-third Night — 28:31
19. 19 - Fifty-fourth Night, Fifty-fifth Night — 27:56
20. 20 - Fifty-sixth Night, Fifty-seventh Night — 19:43
21. 21 - Fifty-eighth Night, the Fifty-ninth Night — 15:49
22. 22 - Sixtieth Night, the Sixty-first night, the Sixty-second Night — 18:11
23. 23 - Sixty-Third Night, the Sixty-Fourth Night, the Sixty-Fifth Night — 15:52
24. 24 - Sixty-sixth Night, the Sixty-seventh Night, the Sixty-eighth night — 13:02

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