The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, credited to Anonymous - Translated by Richard Francis Burton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, by Anonymous - Translated by Richard Francis Burton. This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, 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 Richard Francis Burton. (Summary based on Wikipedia article and LibriVox's The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5
• Author credits: Anonymous - Translated by Richard Francis Burton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 17:43:21

Catalogue topics

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

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - Three Hundred and Fifty-seventh Night to Three Hundred and Sixtieth Night — 31:53
2. 02 - Three Hundred and Sixty-first Night to Three Hundred and Sixty-fourth Night — 23:21
3. 03 - Three Hundred and Sixty-fifth Night to Three Hundred and Sixty-eighth Night — 17:55
4. 04 - Three Hundred and Sixty-ninth Night to Three Hundred and Seventy-second Night — 29:03
5. 05 - Three Hundred and Seventy-third Night to Three Hundred and Seventy-sixth Night — 33:28
6. 06 - Three Hundred and Seventy-seventh Night to Three Hundred and Eightieth Night — 33:06
7. 07 - Three Hundred and Eighty-first Night to Three Hundred and Eighty-fourth Night — 29:25
8. 08 - Three Hundred and Eighty-fifth Night to Three Hundred and Eighty-eighth Night — 29:09
9. 09 - Three Hundred and Eighty-ninth Night to Three Hundred and Ninety-second Night — 21:52
10. 10 - Three Hundred and Ninety-third Night to Three Hundred and Ninety-sixth Night — 19:03
11. 11 - Three Hundred and Ninety-seventh Night to Four Hundredth Night — 20:46
12. 12 - Four Hundred and First Night to Four Hundred and Fourth Night — 34:06
13. 13 - Four Hundred and Fifth Night to Four Hundred and Eighth Night — 19:39
14. 14 - Four Hundred and Ninth Night to Four Hundred and Twelfth Night — 22:01
15. 15 - Four Hundred and Thirteenth Night to Four Hundred and Eighteenth Night — 20:00
16. 16 - Four Hundred and Nineteenth Night to Four Hundred and Twentieth Night — 12:44
17. 17 - Four Hundred and Twenty-first Night to Four Hundred and Twenty-fourth Night — 19:34
18. 18 - Four Hundred and Twenty-fifth Night to Four Hundred and Twenty-eighth Night — 21:49
19. 19 - Four Hundred and Twenty-ninth Night to Four Hundred and Thirty-second Night — 19:49
20. 20 - Four Hundred and Thirty-third Night to Four Hundred and Thirty-sixth Night — 18:57
21. 21 - Four Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night to Four Hundred and Fortieth Night — 24:52
22. 22 - Four Hundred and Forty-first Night to Four Hundred and Forty-fourth Night — 28:14
23. 23 - Four Hundred and Forty-fifth Night to Four Hundred and Forty-eighth Night — 24:28
24. 24 - Four Hundred and Forty-ninth Night to Four Hundred and Fifty-second Night — 20:30

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