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New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English-language short story tradition.
Two notable novels loosely based on The Nights are Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz and When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan. The children's novel The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey is also loosely derived from The Nights. Larry Niven, a Science Fiction & Fantasy author, wrote The Tale of the Jenni and the Sisters.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – 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 Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang at Project Gutenberg; 1001 Nights, Representative of eastern literature (in Persian) "The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade" by Edgar Allan Poe (Wikisource) Arabian Nights Six full-color plates of illustrations from the 1001 Nights which are in the public domain (in Arabic) The Tales in Arabic on Wikisource
The Rajah's Diamond is a cycle of four short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.First published in 1878 in a serial periodical London Magazine, they were republished in the first volume of New Arabian Nights.
The Arabian Nights Reader (Wayne State University Press, 2006). Ulrich Marzolph, Richard van Leeuwen, Hassan Wassouf (2004).The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. Charles Pellat, "Alf Layla Wa Layla" in Encyclopædia Iranica. Online access June 2011. Pinault, David (1992). Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights. Brill Publishers. ISBN 90-04 ...
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter at Project Gutenberg; Digitised copy of More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter from the Longmans, Green & Co edition (1885) from National Library of Scotland. JPEG, PDF, XML versions. More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Arabian Nights is a two-part 2000 miniseries, adapted by Peter Barnes from Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the medieval epic One Thousand and One Nights. Mili Avital and Dougray Scott star as Scheherazade and Shahryar respectively.