Sir Richard Francis Burton 
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 3 [Supplement] 

With Notes Anthropological And Explanatory

Historically considered by Arabic scholars as a form of "low brow" literature and rarely regarded for its literary merits, The Arabian Nights, in its many incarnations, was in the twenty-first century considered nonetheless a classic of Western literature and continued to be one of its most influential works.