Arab Society in the Time of The Thousand and One Nights by Edward William Lane, Stanley Lane-Poole (Editor)

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In his 1859 translation of Thousand and One Nights, Lane (1801- 76) includes extensive notes that often began short essays. At the second printing, Stanley Lane-Poole compiled those notes, edited out those discussing the text itself, arranged the rest into topical chapters, and produced an index. It was published in 1883 as Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies from the Thousand and One Nights by Chatto and Windus, London. Robert F. Burton complained that Lane's translation left out all the juicy bits, but drew on his notes for commentary on his own translation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR