Edward William Lane (1801-76) is best remembered for his mighty Arabic-English Lexicon and classic translation of One Thousand and One Nights. This 1877 biography by his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931) is based on family recollections, the Description of Egypt and Lane's diary of his second stay there.
An 1877 biographical sketch of the great orientalist remembered for his Arabic-English Lexicon and translation of One Thousand and One Nights.
