Cover art for Three Tales From the Arabian Nights: Popular Penguins
Published
Popular Penguins, June 2010
ISBN
9780141194684
Format
Softcover, 164 pages
Dimensions
18cm × 11.2cm × 1.1cm

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In these three tales from the first major translation into English of The Arabian Nights in more than 100 years, the endless inventiveness of the vizier's daughter Shahrazad is revealed, as she spins stories of greed, lust, riches and wonder to delay her death at the hands of a brutal king.

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