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They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are delightful, fascinating, and fun for fans... Read Full Overview

The stories of The Arabian Nights (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose interest in her tale. Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia,... Read Full Overview

Las mil y una noches es una recopilaci n de historias inspiradas por la tradici n oral, cuya relevancia fue curiosamente marginal dentro del contexto de la literatura rabe medieval. No obstante, a ella le debemos la fascinaci n por lo oriental que surgi a partir del siglo XVIII... Read Full Overview

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'"For," said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth."'

A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard... Read Full Overview

Husain Haddawy's critically acclaimed Arabian Nights, based on Muhsin Mahdi's landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant version. This book has a collection of 35 tales from the 'Nights.'

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each... Read Full Overview

It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights. Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, magic words that open doors to great treasure, giants and dwarves, monsters and magicians, talking birds... Read Full Overview

Presents a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a prince who has sworn to kill any girl who marries him.

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each... Read Full Overview

Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang.

The stories contained in this "store house of ingenious fiction" initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance... Read Full Overview

Many, many years ago, there was a large kingdom. The kingdom stretched all the way from Persia to China. It then crossed the borders of China into India where the holy Ganges flowed. For early four hundred years, this prosperous kingdom was ruled by a royal dynasty. The kingdom... Read Full Overview

Beige cloth hard back with paste-on picture on front, blue decorative spine; red slipcase with paste-on picture on front; 327 pages filled with color & b&w illustrations; end papers are full-color Arabian scene

The Thousand and One Nights, namely Arabian Nights, is a collection of legendary tales told by Sultana Scheherazade to the Sasanian king ruling in India and China, who is shocked to discover that his brother's wife is unfaithful and his own wife's infidelity has been even more... Read Full Overview