The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

Volume 2

Author  Anonymous Introduction by  Robert Irwin Translated by  Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons Notes by  Robert Irwin
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature
 
From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880s.
 
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel…

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May 25, 2010
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