Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites (Clothbound)

Author: Anonymous, Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons

Night after night Shahrazad tells her wonderful stories until the King starts to realize that he won’t be able to live without them…

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SKU 9780241382714 Categories Fiction (13-18), Fiction (19+) Tags cloth covered books, humour, mythology

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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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Weight	1 kg
Dimensions	8 × 5.3 × 1.3 cm
ISBN	9780241382714
Published Date	2017
Author	Anonymous, Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons
Publisher	Penguin Classics
Format	Hardcover, Cloth bound