ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.
POSTSCRIPT TO THE SECOND EDITION.
PREFACE.
AUTHOR OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
THE FABLE OF THE ASS, THE OX, AND THE LABOURER.
THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT AND THE GENIUS.
THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST OLD MAN AND THE HIND.
THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND OLD MAN AND THE TWO BLACK DOGS.
THE HISTORY OF THE FISHERMAN.
THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK KING AND DOUBAN THE PHYSICIAN.
THE HISTORY OF THE HUSBAND AND THE PARROT.
THE HISTORY OF THE VIZIER, WHO WAS PUNISHED.
THE HISTORY OF THE YOUNG KING OF THE BLACK ISLES.
THE HISTORY OF THREE CALENDERS, SONS OF KINGS, AND OF FIVE LADIES OF BAGDAD.
THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST CALENDER, THE SON OF A KING.
THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND CALENDER, THE SON OF A KING.
THE HISTORY OF THE ENVIOUS MAN, AND OF HIM WHO WAS ENVIED.
THE HISTORY OF THE THIRD CALENDER, THE SON OF A KING.
THE HISTORY OF ZOBEIDE.
THE HISTORY OF AMINE.
THE HISTORY OF SINDBAD, THE SAILOR.
THE HISTORY OF THE LADY WHO WAS MURDERED, AND OF THE YOUNG MAN, HER HUSBAND.
THE HISTORY OF NOUREDDIN ALI, AND BEDREDDIN HASSAN.
NOTES TO VOL. I.
Transcriber's Notes
The first edition of this translation was published in London in 1802. It was translated indirectly by Edward Forster from the French translation of Antoine Galland titled Les mille et une nuits.
Footnotes appearing in the Preface were numbered alphabetically and moved to the end of the ebook with the endnotes.
THE
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
VOL. I.
THE
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
IN FOUR VOLUMES,
TRANSLATED BY
EDWARD FORSTER, M. A.
THE FOURTH EDITION.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE-STREET,
Reprinted by Assignment, for
THOMAS TEGG, NO. 111, CHEAPSIDE.
1815.
W. Lewis, Printer, St. John’s Square, London.
