The Arabian Nights Entertainments

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

An adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern Folk Tales, commonly known in English as Arabian Nights, this version by George Fyler Townsend draws from previous French and English translations. Given its publication date, it may have been the edition to circulate to Bermuda in 1870.

Unknown author; adapter George Fyler Townsend

Pictured text is held by the University of California and available in its entirety through Hathi Trust Digital Library

Various publishers; pictured text is London: Frederick Warne, circa 1866

Originally composed in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (circa 8th century); Circulated in the Caribbean 1870

Courtney Weikle-Mills

Public domain

English, translated from Arabic

Storybook based on folk tales