Tales from 1,001 nights / translated by Malcolm C. Lyons ; with Ursula Lyons ; introduced and annotated by Robert Irwin.
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780241382714
- ISBN: 0241382718
- Physical Description: xxi, 496 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Edition: Abridged edition.
- Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "First published in three volumes by Penguin Classics 2008...This abridged version first published 2010...Published in paperback 2011" -- Title page verso.Translated from the Arabic.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-496).
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Arabic.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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