Unknown author ~11 hr read

Genies and enchanters, clever wives and unlucky merchants, wonders and terrors, further tales from the great treasury of Arabian storytelling, in Richard Burton's celebrated translation.

This 1887 volume (Sir Richard Burton's Supplemental Nights, Vol. 3) gathers additional stories to the Thousand and One Nights. Rich, exotic, endlessly inventive. Read it for the boundless imagination of the Arabian tales, a fountainhead of world fantasy, in the famously vivid and unexpurgated Burton rendering.

In its time

Published in 1887, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).