Aladdin

 AS SHE FINISHED HER STORY, SHAHRAZAD PROMISED THE SULTAN ANOTHER NO LESS ENCHANTING. THE FOLLOWING DAY. HER SISTER, DUNYAZAD, MADE SURE TO REMIND HER BEFORE DAYBREAK OF HER PROMISE, AND SAID THE SULTAN WAS READY TO HEAR HER. SHAHRAZAD DID NOT KEEP HIM WAITING. THIS IS THE STORY SHE TOLD HIM.

The edition we have been working with all this time, presents Aladdin's story as a long single text, making it difficult to break down into daily segments. There's a more recent (2018) stand-alone edition, translated by Yasmine Seale and edited by Paulo Lemos Horta, which is conveniently divided into twelve chapters and an epilogue so Helen and I have decided to finish this monumental quest using that.

From a dynamic French-Syrian translator comes an authoritative, modern, “glamorous and delightful” (Paris Review) translation of the classic tale of magic lamps and jinn.