Tales from 1,001 nights
2019
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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.
Main title:
Tales from 1,001 nights / translated by Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons ; introduction by Robert Irwin.
Author:
Lyons, M. C. (Malcolm Cameron), translatorLyons, U. (Ursula), translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
xxi, 496 pages ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241382714 (hbk)
Dewey class:
398.20953
LC class:
PJ7716.A1
Local class:
398
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
2538043
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