title: The Arabian Nights: Tales From the Thousand and One Nights
author: Various Authors
description: "'The Arabian Nights', a collection of more than 250 tales are called in Arabic 'The Thousand and One Nights." According to the fiction which binds the collection together, the stories are told by Scheherazade to prevent her husband, the sultan Schariar, from killing her. Each night Scheherazade postpones the climax of her narrative to the following night, thus postponing, and eventually escaping entirely, the fate of her predecessors as wife to the sultan--death the day following the bridal night." [Excerpt from the "Introduction." 
  This volume includes: "The History of Codadad and His Brothers and of the Princess Deryabar," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "The Story of Sinbad the Sailor," "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Story of the Three Calenders," 'The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles," "The Story of Prince Assad and the Fairy Perie Nashara," "The Story of Baba Abdalla," and "The Story of Ganem, the Slave of Love."
zlib_text: THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT
  A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments
  Translated and Annotated by Richard F. Burton
  VOLUME ONE
  Inscribed to the Memory of My Lamented Friend John Frederick Steinhaeuser, (Civil Surgeon, Aden) who A
  Quarter of a Century Ago Assisted Me in this Translation.
  "To the pure all things are pure" (Puris omnia pura) - Arab Proverb.
  "Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole." - "Decameron" - conclusion.
  "Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum Sed coram Bruto. Brute! reced, leget. - Martial.
  "Miculx est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes." - Rabelais.
  "The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand and One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a
  comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions." - Crichton's "History of Arabia."
  Contents of the First Volume
  Introduction
  Story Of King Shahryar and His Brother
  a. Tale of the Bull and the Ass
  1
  
  1. Tale of th