[Complete]The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night vol 8

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Kristingj
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The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night volume 8 by Anonymous ( - ). Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)

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This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the eight of sixteen volumes translated by Burton.
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    6. Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): ( Anonymous) : n/a
    7. Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
    8. Number of sections (files) this project will have: 39
    9. Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
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I can MC this for you, Kristin. Will be back in a while with the MW.

MW is up - let me know if anything doesn't look right! We'll stick around here to try and snag a DPL.
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Lynnet wrote:I can MC this for you, Kristin. Will be back in a while with the MW.

MW is up - let me know if anything doesn't look right! We'll stick around here to try and snag a DPL.
Thanks, I'm gonna set it up tomorrow, on my way out for the evening:)
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I have a question; the mw on some of the other volumes was set up like I have section 1, but it is a lot more hassle to set it up like that unless it actually helps, so I made a suggestion in section 2 for how it could be done. Thoughts?
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Kristingj wrote:I have a question; the mw on some of the other volumes was set up like I have section 1, but it is a lot more hassle to set it up like that unless it actually helps, so I made a suggestion in section 2 for how it could be done. Thoughts?
As I'm new to MCing, I checked with my mentor and her ruling is you can set it up however you want. You don't have to copy other volumes (although sometimes it's handy to look to see how they were done, even if you ultimately reject that way). FYI, we both think section2 is a lot clearer 8-)
Edit to add: your summary says it's the second of sixteen volumes, but it's volume 8 :hmm:
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Lynnet wrote:
Kristingj wrote:I have a question; the mw on some of the other volumes was set up like I have section 1, but it is a lot more hassle to set it up like that unless it actually helps, so I made a suggestion in section 2 for how it could be done. Thoughts?
As I'm new to MCing, I checked with my mentor and her ruling is you can set it up however you want. You don't have to copy other volumes (although sometimes it's handy to look to see how they were done, even if you ultimately reject that way). FYI, we both think section2 is a lot clearer 8-)
Edit to add: your summary says it's the second of sixteen volumes, but it's volume 8 :hmm:
Great, that's how I wanted to do it too:)
Obs, I copy pasted:P All the other volumes have the same summary, so I figured it was best to continue the trend. It is fixed:)

EDIT: The mw is up:)
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Is it okay to claim 1-10? thanks.

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rosieau wrote:Is it okay to claim 1-10? thanks.

Rosie
Oh, wow, yes it is:)
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Thanks!

I'll post for a DPL:)
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Thank you:)
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Thanks:)
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