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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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140449396Number of pages: 896Weight: 608 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 37 mm
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"A magnificent,unexpurgated edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world...The Arabian Nights is not a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have."-The Sunday Times (London)"The translation...ought to become the standard one for the present century."-The Times Literary Supplement"These magnificent volumes are the most ambitious and thorough translation into English of The Arabian Nights since the age of Queen Victoria and the British Empire."-The Guardian"This new translation of the world's greatest collection of folk stories restores their colour and verve."-The Sunday Times (London)
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