The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3

by Anonymous

Other authorsRobert Irwin (Editor), Robert Irwin (Introduction), Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Translator)
Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

398.20953

Genres

Collection

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.

User reviews

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

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