A review by antij
The Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland, Henry William Dulcken, Muhsin J. Al-Musawi

3.0

I enjoyed some of the earlier stories, specifically when we got the stories within stories within stories, and reading the Aladdin story when all I knew of it was the Disney version was pretty buckwild, but most of the rest of the very long book dragged. Too many of the stories meandered about, reaching what should have been the conclusion and then going on for three of four times the amount. Perhaps that sort of narrative makes sense since the narrator is supposed to be trying to delay her husband and possible executioner (spoiler for the introduction to the book), but the stories almost never read like the story a young woman would tell. It reads much more like a collection of stories that have been translated multiple times and added to as it went along.