The Arabian Nights, Volume 2: Tales of 1001 Nights: Nights 295 to 719

by Anonymous, Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140449396
• ISBN13: 9780140449396
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher