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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: "Tales from the 1001 Nights"
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Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 10:16:28 EST
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> >In addition, most editions printed more than ~15 years ago
> >were based on a translation done in the last century by a
> >English gentleman (whose name eludes me), whose work
> 
> I believe his name was Richard Burton.

	The Burton version is definitely NOT bowdlerized - it runs to
several volumes and is intentionally quite explicit.

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