Tales from 1,001 Nights

Tales from 1,001 Nights
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 696
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ISBN-10 : 9780141965871
ISBN-13 : 0141965878
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Download or read book Tales from 1,001 Nights written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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