Some links about the Nights and about Richard Burton:

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica overview of the Nights
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica biography of Richard Burton
  • Project: Gutenburg electronic text of the Nights
  • Colourful history of the Nights, with music
  • Another person's notes on the Nights, with electronic text
  • My own favourite extracts
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    Images from my 1890 edition of Burton's Nights
    front cover title page matrix arabic prayer decorating title page introductory quotations back cover