Volume 1 -- Nights 1 to 294, Arabian Nights, (Trans. Lyons) Penguin Classics

Table of Contents, Translation by Lyons, Penguin Classics                    

Volume 1 -- Nights 1 to 294

The following is a list of the stories from Volume 1 of the Lyons translation of the Arabian Nights.  This list can be used in selecting parallel stories from the Burton translation.  The numbers on the left side indicate the Night, or stories of Nights, over which a story is told.  Stories told within a story are presented in brackets.

King Shahriyar and Shah Zaman

King Shahriyar and Shahrazad

(The story of the donkey and the bull)

1-3 The merchant and the jinni

1-2 (The story of the first old man

2 The story of the second old man

2-3 The story of the third old man

3-9 The fisherman and the ‘ifrit

4-5 (The story of King Yunan and Duban the sage

5 (The story of King Sindbad and the falcon

5 The story of the treacherous viier)

7-8 The story of the semi-petrified prince)

9-19 The porter and the three ladies

11-12 (The story of the first dervish 

12-14 The story of the second dervish

13 (The story of the envious and the envied)

14-16 The story of the third dervish

17-18 The story of the lady of the house

18 The story of the doorkeeper)

19-24 Harun al-Rashid and the fisherman’s chest

19 (The story of the young man and the three apples

20-24 The story of Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din)

24-34 The hunchback

25-6 (The Christian’s story

27-8 The inspector’s story

28-9 The Jewish doctor’s story

29-34 The tailor’s story

31-4 (The story of the barber’s first brother

31 (The story of the barber’s first brother

31-2 The story of the barber’s second brother

32 The story of the barber’s third brother

32 The story of the barber’s fourth brother

32-3 The story of the barber’s fifth brother

33 The story of the barber’s sixthe brother)))

34-8 Nur al-Din’ Ali and Anis al-Jalis 

38-45 Ghanim ibn Ayyub, the slave of love

39 (The story of the eunch Bakhait

39-40 The story of the eunuch Kafur)

45-145 King ‘Ulmar ibn al-Nu’man and his family

107-37 (The story of Taj al-Muluk Kharan an Princess Dunya

112-28 (The story of ‘Aziz and ‘Aziza)

142-3 The story of the hashish addict)

146-7 The peahen, the duck and the gazelle

147-8 The pious shepherd

148 The water fowl and the tortoise

148-50 The water fowl and the toroise

149 (The story of the hawk and the partridge

150 The story of the man and the snake)

150 The weasel and the mouse

150 The crow and the cat

150-52 The fox and the crow

150-51 (The story of the flea and the mouse

151-2 The story of the falcon and the birds of prey

152 The story of the sparrow and the eagle)

152 The hedgehog and the doves

152 (The story of the merchant and the two thieves

152 The thief with the monkey

152 (The story of the foolish weaver)

152 The sparrow and the peacock

153-69 ‘Ali ibn Bakkar and Shams al-Nahar

170-249 The story of King Shahriman and his son, Qamar al-Zaman

237-46 (The story of Ni’ma ibn al-Rabi’ and Nu’m)

249-70 ‘Ala’ al-Din Abu’l-Shamat

270-71 Hatim of Tayy

271-2 Ma’n ibn Za’ida

272-3 The city of Labtit

273 Hisham ibn ‘Abd al-Malik and the young Bedouin

273-6 Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi

276-9 ‘Abd Allah ibn Abi Qilaba and Iram, City of the Columns

279-82 Ishaq ibn al-Mausili

282-5 The slaughterhous cleaner and the lady

285-94 Harum al-Rashid and the second caliph’

294- ‘Ali the Persian

The story of Ali Baba and the forty theves killed by a slave girl