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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. Review "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 coll

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Author

Malcolm, C (tr); Lyons, Ursula

Publisher

Penguin Publishing

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141943527

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Fiction, American Poetry

Rating

4.7 / 5 (210 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14