I had planned to recap four stories, all the way to Night 963, and I have actually read that far.

940-946 ‘Abd Allah of the land and ‘Abd Allah of the sea.I cannot help but wonder what someone with more design and artistic flair could do with the same data.Ĭontinue reading “The Tales of The Arabian Nights: A Visualisation” My version presents separate columns for each of the three Penguin Classics volumes, but could just as easily have been a single long list.Īs you will see, the aesthetics of my visualisation leaves a lot to be desired. I used this data to generate a simple webpage. (Given more time, I might have also listed the number of bytes that each story consumes when rendered the HTML format found on the Project Gutenberg editions). The sheet also lists the number of Nights that a story spans, and also the number of pages the story covers in the Penguin Classics edition. whether they are told directly by Shahrazad, or one of the characters within one of her stories). I used the same list to create a rudimentary visualisation of the stories: their relative sizes, and how they nest within one another.įirst, I created a spreadsheet ( Arabian_Nights_Contents.csv, 18KB) which lists the stories by ‘level’ (i.e. I thought I may as well post on the site, and it is pasted below. This is derived from the indices at the back of the three volumes of the Penguin Classics editions. To help plan my recaps, I created a list of every story in The Arabian Nights.

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