The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights
Volume 3
Malcolm Lyons translator Ursula Lyons translator Robert Irwin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:4th Feb '10
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
‘This Penguin edition is the one to have’
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When the beautiful Shahrazad must spend the night with the bloody-handed King Shahriyar, she is not expected to survive beyond dawn. But using all her intelligence and resourcefulness, she begins a sequence of stories that will last 1001 nights: stories of caliphs and merchants, sultans and dancing girls, robbers and enchanted rings, and fantastical fountains of Youth, brought to life in Malcolm C. Lyons’s acclaimed translation.
This volume also includes the well-known tale of ‘Aladdin and the Magic Lamp’.
"A magnificent, unexpurgated edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world . . . The Arabian Nights is not a book to be read in a week. It is an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have." —The Sunday Times (London)
"The translation . . . ought to become the standard one for the present century." —The Times Literary Supplement
"These magnificent volumes are the most ambitious and thorough translation into English of The Arabian Nights since the age of Queen Victoria and the British Empire." —The Guardian
"This new translation of the world's greatest collection of folk stories restores their colour and verve." —The Sunday Times (London)
ISBN: 9780140449402
Dimensions: 217mm x 131mm x 52mm
Weight: 626g
880 pages