Tales from 1,001 Nights (Penguin Classics)

by Malcolm Lyons (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $12.43

  This is the essential one-volume edition of Tales from 1,001 Nights , drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation published in 3 volumes by Penguin Classics in 2008. It contains Aladdin , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves , Sindbad the Sailor and many others of the most enjoyable and beloved tales from the Arabian Nights . This new translation was described as 'magnificent' and 'the most ambitious and thorough translation' in the Guardian and lauded in the Telegraph as 'outstanding'. The Sunday Times said 'The new Penguin edition is the one to have'.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2010

  $3.22

  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.