The version of this work by Edward Lane censored immoral content and also included anthropological notes on the people it concerns. Puccini's opera Turandot is based on a piece of it and a more famous English translation was the un-bowdlerized (*) version by Sir Richard Burton. It begins when a king finds his wife to be unfaithful and he executes h
The version of this work by Edward Lane censored immoral content and also included anthropological notes on the people it concerns. Puccini's opera Turandot is based on a piece of it and a more famous English translation was the un-bowdlerized (*) version by Sir Richard Burton. It begins when a king finds his wife to be unfaithful and he executes her. The narrator is assisted by her sister Dunyazad in, FTP, what collection in which the king Shahryar is told a story every night by Scheherazade.
The version of this work by Edward Lane censored immoral content and also included anthropological notes on the people it concerns.
1001 Arabian Nights or The Book of One Thousand and One Nights or The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night or Kitab ‘Alf Layla wa-Layla