This classic collection of Middle Eastern folk tales includes such famous stories as 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', and 'Sinbad the Sailor'. Payne's translation, first published in 1882, is renowned for its beautiful prose and scholarly fidelity to the original Arabic. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This...