Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880's.Įvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel of Death and magical spirits, and of jinni's trapped in rings and in lamps-a sequence of stories that will last 1,001 nights, and that will save her own life. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2, Anonymous, Malcolm C.
