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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega

Not really. It contains a tiny selection of the tales only. Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated version of 1885 numbers 16 substantial volumes (though they contain very lengthy footnotes and additional essays) and the 2008 Penguin Classics translation has 3 volumes and around 3000 pages.

In any case: One Thousand and One Nights is a wonderful collection of classic Arabic tales and well worth reading, although it isn't really high fantasy.

There is a reason why some of the tales are missing from the book. Many of them are not meant for children.

Spoiler:

For example one tale has a young woman having an intimate relationship with both a slave and an ape. Another is about a man who goes on a long journey after having committed a social error (he had gas) and he leaves hoping people will forget about it. When he returns many yrs later (in disguise) he finds that it is a remembered date because a young woman asks her mother when she was born and her mother tells her she was born on the night that he had broken wind.