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The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: a plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton; illustrated by Albert Letchford. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - 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).