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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night is Sir Richard Francis Burton's celebrated English translation of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. The frame story tells of Shahrazad, who marries a king who executes each bride at dawn and saves her life by weaving tales night after night for 1,001 nights. Includes Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad.