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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

The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights,... Read Full Overview

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

Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang.

Las mil y una noches es un homenaje a la palabra y a su poder de seducci?n. Gracias a la palabra y una pizca de imaginaci?n Sherezade, una bella e inteligente joven persa, entretiene al rey durante mil y una noches atrapando su ira con un precioso manto d

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

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