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This is a selection of Arabian Nights (with GEMs highlighted).  The list below includes links for several associated items which may be available online for each book: (a) Wikipedia page, (b) e-book, and (c) audiobook.  There is also a column called “More info” with links to optional posts on each book.

The tales from the Arabian Nights (also known as 1,001 Nights) were composed a long time ago (the earliest fragments of the stories that have been discovered go back to at least the ninth century AD), but they were first popularized in the Western world by Antoine Gallard in Les Mille et Une Nuits (“The Thousand and One Nights”), a 12-volume series of books written in French and published between 1704 and 1717.  More than a century and a half later (in 1885), Richard F. Burton published a 10-volume series of books in English called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, which is the source of the stories I have linked in this section.

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