Thread: Literary One Thousand and One Nights
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Old 05-12-2017, 02:02 PM   #10
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The Delphi edition has four translations namely those by Payne, Burton, Lang, and Scott. There is also an "adaptation" by Julia Pardoe.

Lane is represented by Arabian Society In The Middle Ages. The ebook does have some very beautiful illustrations but I noticed that the notes aren't easily accessed.

While I would agree that Burton's translation is quite vivid and atmospheric, it is also aggressively erotic and most would consider it racist as well--both in the text and in the notes. Payne does not Bowdlerize nor does Dawood but both show more restraint than we encounter in Burton.
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