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    Tales from 1,001 Nights

    Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites

    Part of Penguin Clothbound Classics

    Author Anonymous
    Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
    Introduction by Robert Irwin
    Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons
    Notes by Robert Irwin
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    $25.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Dec 10, 2019 | 528 Pages | 9780241382714
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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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    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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