Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith,these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality,colourful,tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.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 . . .
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241382714Number of pages: 528Weight: 640 gDimensions: 200 x 132 x 34 mm
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A magnificent edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world...an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have. Settle back,pour a glass of wine and sail away with Sinbad to the Island of Serendib
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