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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I find my library can help with the Haddawy but not the Dawood. Do you want to specify a particular version, sun surfer, or do you think any one of several would do? The Burton sounds as if it should be avoided! I'll hold my vote for now, but I do like the idea of reading at least some of The Thousand and One Nights.
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No specific version; if it wins it would be more of an 'everyone choose your own version'. It would be the same as the (long ago) month when the short stories of Saki won. There were so many assorted stories that neither the complete collection nor any particular collection were nominated; it was left to each of us to read the stories we chose from among all of them. There are so many versions of One Thousand and One Nights that it could be interesting to compare and contrast if we choose different versions amongst us, and if someone prefers a version or translation that's longer they can decide to pick and choose which stories to read if they don't want to plow through the entire thing.
Separately, I wanted to mention about the page lengths included on the first post that they may be less accurate than other months, mainly because of larger variances in these types of books because some include only the original text and others include sometimes very long scholarly criticism and such. I faithfully stuck to my procedure for estimating page counts on all of them (averaging the first five page count results on its Goodreads editions), but in particular Epic of Gilgamesh by itself is probably only around 80 or so pages, so less than half the page count listed, and Agamemnon might be sub-100 too. And I've already mentioned about One Thousand and One Nights having many versions of varying lengths; the average of its first five results ended up giving it almost 600 pages, but on the first page alone of Goodreads editions results there's a version that's almost 5,000 pages and a version that's only around 250 pages (and the next page has a few versions under 100 pages), so there's an extreme variance there.