The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11, 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 the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11 by Anonymous. (Translated by Richard Francis Burton.) Read in English by Foon; mlcui; Michael Muransky; Kristine Bekere; Aparna Bhat; Gracicah; TriciaG; Murphy8104; issamel; Amatullah Talks; Sunil Goswami; KevinS; diazgeorge00; Candace Tuttle; pianoroll262; rewohwrew; sachinV; Jane Bennett; chuckconvr; Vivianlyu; Lynette Caulkins; ChadH94; Daniel Chao; Paul Fleischman; Shreya Sethi; Lisa Stump; Diana Therriault 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 eleventh of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 10:54:28

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 00 - Dedication & Translator's Foreword — 5:27
2. 01 - The Sleeper and the Waker — 6:57
3. 02 - Story of the Larrikin and the Cook, part 1 — 38:28
4. 03 - Story of the Larrikin and the Cook, part 2 — 30:12
5. 04 - The Caliph Omar Bin Adb al-Aziz and the Poets — 6:58
6. 05 - Al-Hajjaj and the Three Young Men — 3:05
7. 06 - Harun al-Rashid and the Woman of the Barmecides — 3:08
8. 07 - The Ten Wazirs: Or the History of King Azadbakht and his Son — 13:50
9. 08 - The First Day — 17:15
10. 09 - The Second Day — 15:07
11. 10 - The Third Day — 17:54
12. 11 - The Fourth Day — 8:46
13. 12 - The Fifth Day — 20:19
14. 13 - The Sixth Day — 12:21
15. 14 - The Seventh Day — 8:13
16. 15 - The Eighth Day — 17:46
17. 16 - The Ninth Day — 17:49
18. 17 - The Tenth Day, part 1 — 24:10
19. 18 - The Tenth Day, part 2 — 22:55
20. 19 - The Eleventh Day — 10:12
21. 20 - Ja'afar bin Yahya and Abd al-Malik bin Salith the Abbaside — 6:54
22. 21 - Al-Rashid and the Barmecides — 3:28
23. 22 - Ibn al-Sammak and al-Rashid — 1:48
24. 23 - Al-Maamun and Zubaydah — 2:10

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