Supplemental Nights Volume One — Richard Burton

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") - a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th 13th centuries) - by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)."