A Thousand and One Nights

[Mark Ballinger]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:09:53PM -0600, monroe at mpm.edu wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a non-Richard Burto translation of the Arabian a.k.a. A
> Thousand and One Nights?   I found the Muhsin Mahdin one (Brill, 1995), as
> well as the 1973 Penguin ed., but ... starngely, I was not only asked this
> at all, but after almost having picked up Barth's Chimera and Mahfouz's
> Arabian Nights and Days for a friend ...

This is eerie, because I was about to ask the same thing, but on a different tack.  My 8 year old just read "Children of the Lamp" and I was curious about this too.

Can anyone recommend a not-too-difficult but worthwhile translation?  Not-bowdlerized, but the way, just not dense.

-mark

(a fairly new joiner to the list, and until now just a lurker.  Long time Pynchon reader; Pomona College 1987)