The Arabian Nights Volume I

<b>Enjoy the timeless tales of Aladdin Sinbad Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and many more in this first volume of <i>The Arabian Nights</i>.&#160;</b><br><br>Upon learning of his queen&#146;s infidelity proud King Shahryar has her killed. As revenge on womankind he decides to wed a different virgin every night only to have her beheaded at dawn. Such is Shahryar&#146;s practice for three terrible years&#151;until he weds Scheherazade the maiden who will change his life....<br><br>A breathtaking beauty Scheherazade is as learned as she is sensuous. Her first night with the king she uses her imagination her eloquence and more than a little cunning to regale him with a tale of genies and wishes wisely cutting the story short at dawn. The king is so beguiled he cannot have her murdered without hearing the story&#146;s end. From then on Scheherazade spends nights conjuring stories of flying carpets and fantastical journeys always stopping with a cliff-hanger&#151;and saving her own life.<br><br>This edition follows the unexpurgated translation of Richard F. Burton the renowned Victorian explorer. Intricate and inventive these stories within stories continue to captivate readers as they have for centuries.