The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren.
Nobody knows how old they are, or who told them first. The children of Ham, Shem and Japhet may have listened to them in the Ark, on wet days. Hector's little boy may have heard them i This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.