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Antoine Galland? That one's pretty famous. Legolas Send a noteboard - 06/07/2012 11:20:02 PM
The first because I haven't read any French in ages. It's an early C18 translation, but surprisingly readable given that. I only have Vol 1 which is nights 1-100 and 103. The second is a re-read, but I'm skipping the ones I didn't like first time round. Saving the best – The Days of Solomon Gursky by Ian McDonald – for last.

No idea whether that means it's good - as I understand it he was perhaps even the first to translate them to an European language. I suppose later translators would've had the benefit of learning from his mistakes...
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