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product_id: 4523841
title: "The Arabian Nights"
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# The Arabian Nights

**Price:** R320
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- **What is this?** The Arabian Nights
- **How much does it cost?** R320 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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desertcart.com: The Arabian Nights: 9781607103097: Burton, Sir Richard, Burton, Sir Richard, Mondschein, Ken: Books

Review: Great for collectors - I’ve been collecting the Canterbury collection and this was a great addiction. Looks just like the pictures.
Review: Interesting stories. - I find it very entertaining. It embraces a reality of personality types along with great imagination. Better than many of the current movies.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #75,181 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #982 in Short Stories (Books) #1,489 in Classic Literature & Fiction #4,815 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,740) |
| Dimensions  | 6.25 x 1.6 x 9.25 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 1607103095 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1607103097 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 676 pages |
| Publication date  | November 1, 2011 |
| Publisher  | Canterbury Classics |

## Images

![The Arabian Nights - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81eoAlXUeDL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for collectors
*by M***Z on December 28, 2025*

I’ve been collecting the Canterbury collection and this was a great addiction. Looks just like the pictures.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting stories.
*by M***E on January 30, 2026*

I find it very entertaining. It embraces a reality of personality types along with great imagination. Better than many of the current movies.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very engaging and beautiful cover
*by D***V on July 31, 2018*

There are at least two different versions of this book with the same covers. One is the 2006 version the other is the 2016 version. The difference can be seen in a few different areas. The most noticeable is the inside cover art is much different as are is the illustrations inside. The 2006 version also has Arabic writing on the front and back cover. The 2016 replaces that writing with stylized loops and swirls. I guess for the 2016 version they wanted to avoid any controversy that having a book about Arabia with Arabic writing on the cover might cause. The big difference with the illustrations is the 2006 version has very risqué and what could be considered racist pictures, though totally accurate to the details in the story. The 2016 version has illustrations that different events in the book that are very tame and mostly unimportant to the plot. The editors really really changed the illustrations and it was clearly to be more PC despite the fact that this book is absolutely not PC. This book has very sexist, racist, and bigoted views of everyone not of high standing in the Arabic world of the time. The descriptions are very vivid and the pictures in the old version accurately depict what the text describes. The biggest difference is the addition and omission of different stories in each version. I originally received the 2016 version and had read almost half of it before accidentally water damaging the book to the point where it didn't shut all the way. So I ordered another copy and received the 2006 version. I immediately noticed the different illustrations and then noticed they have different stories in each. For the most part the text is exactly the same, word for word, page for page with the exception of the 7th voyage of Sinbad where the 2016 version adds three pages of an 8th voyage that wasn't really a voyage and did nothing to add to the story (so I'm not sure why that was added) and that finished with him calling it the 7th voyage (weird). There are about three different places where different stories were used. So I am currently reading the stories from the old version that weren't in the new version. The old version's alternate stories were better in my opinion, however they're all very engaging (once you get used to the racist, sexist, and bigoted storytelling of the time, region, and author.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-16*