1,001 Emails

1,001 Emails

One night. One story. Every evening at eight.

Each night, Shahrzād comes to your inbox with the next passage of One Thousand and One Nights — Burton's translation, unabridged, delivered as she first told it: night by night, with a thread left dangling at the dawn.

Subscribe today and your story begins tonight. Come back in 1,001 days a different reader.

Curious what happens before Night One? Read the prelude — how the King came to his vow, and Shahrazad's plan to end it.

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We'll send your nightly story at 8 pm in this timezone — every day, starting with Night 1. We ask so that the email arrives in the spirit of the original: as darkness falls.

Begin my 1,001 nights →

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The text is Burton's 1885 translation — ornate, faithful, and in the public domain. If you are a modern translator and would like to offer your version to subscribers, write to us.