Description
| Product ID: | 9780140449402 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Arabian Nights |
| Title: | The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights |
| Subtitle: | Volume 3 |
| Authors: | Author: Malcolm Lyons, Ursula Lyons |
| Page Count: | 880 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Myth & legend told as fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-02-04 |