The Arabian Nights Tales of 1001 Nights Volume 1

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

The paperback publication of the first volume of the new, substantially complete translation of one of the best-known and most influential classics of world literature

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories 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 outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780140449389
Published: February 2010

Number of pages: 1008
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 42 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd