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Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane, drawn by his brother Richard James Lane (c. 1829). Source · Public domain
About Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was an English Arabist, born in Hereford and first trained as an engraver. He went to Egypt in 1825, lived for years in Cairo in local dress, and published An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836). His annotated translation of The Thousand and One Nights appeared in monthly parts from 1838 and in three volumes dated 1839-1841. He spent his later decades on a great Arabic-English Lexicon, issued from 1863 and completed after his death by his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole.
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“either I shall die, and be a ransom for one of the daughters of the Muslims, or I shall live, and be the cause of their deliverance from him.”
This is the first of three volumes of Edward William Lane's translation of The Thousand and One Nights, made directly from the Arabic of the Cairo (Bulaq) printed edition and published in parts from 1838. The library text is the 1859 revision edited by his nephew Edward Stanley Poole, in the 1912 Chatto & Windus reissue with a preface by Stanley Lane-Poole.
