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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol 15

Subtitle A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments
Author Sir Richard Francis Burton
Categories Fantasy, Fiction, Short Story Collection
Language English
Series No. 15 in the Arabian Nights series
Published 1887
Word count 169,170
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am, Gentlemen, Yours obediently, Richard F. Burton.

Bodleian Library, August 5th, 1888

Contents of the Fifteenth Volume.

1. The History of the King's Son of Sind and the Lady Fatimah 2. History of the Lovers of Syria 3. History of Al-Hajjaj Bin Yusuf and the Young Sayyid 4. Night Adventure of Harun Al-Rashid and the Youth Manjab a. Story of the Darwaysh and the Barber's Boy and the Greedy Sultan b. Tale of the Simpleton Husband Note Concerning the "Tirrea Bede," Night 655 5. The Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf 6. The Three Princes of China 7. The Righteous Wazir Wrongfully Gaoled 8. The Cairene Youth, the Barber and the Captain 9. The Goodwife of Cairo and Her Four Gallants a. The Tailor and the Lady and the Captain b. The Syrian and the Three Women of Cairo c. The Lady With Two Coyntes d. The Whorish Wife Who Vaunted Her Virtue 10