THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: TALES OF 1001 NIGHTS : VOLUME 3 : PENGUIN CLASSICS

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.One of the best-known and most influential works of literature ever written this is the first complete translation into English of The Arabian Nights from the Arabic since the 1880s. It also includes new translations from eighteenth century French of the so-called orphan stories for which no original Arabic text remains.