The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
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:
9780140449389 (0140449388)
ASIN: 140449388
Publish date: May 25th 2010
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 982
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Modern,
France,
Short Stories,
Mythology,
Folklore
Series: The Arabian Nights or Tales from 1001 Nights -3 (#1)
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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