The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 (Penguin Classics)
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands...
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140449402 (014044940X)
ASIN: 014044940X
Publish date: 2010-05-25
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 800
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
Short Stories,
Sequential Art,
Manga,
Mythology,
Folklore,
Yaoi,
Manhwa,
Fiction
If I were the publisher’s editor during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries) during the time when these stories were being compiled into a Tale of 1001 Nights, I would have strongly recommended that it be pared down to 101 Nights. 1001 is too many. These three volumes (2008 edition by Peng...
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