
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
288 pages
|Published: 30 Sep 2004
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ISBN: 9780192750136
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 6 January 2000
Description
King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories--of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains--are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again... This illustrated edition brings together all the Arabian Nights tales in an original retelling by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.