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Available
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Publication
Penguin Classics (2010), Edition: 3rd, 800 pages
Description
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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LibraryThing member le.vert.galant
If you want to know why these stories are so special, read Borges. It took me two months to get through these volumes, but they were well worth it.
Language
Original language
Arabic
Physical description
7.8 inches
ISBN
014044940X / 9780140449402