TALES FROM 1,001 NIGHTS

Malcolm Lyons is a Life Fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge. His published works include the biography Saladin The Politics of the Holy War The Arabian Epic and Identification and Identity in Classical Arabic Poetry. Ursula Lyons is Emeritus Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge and specializes in modern Arabic literature.Robert Irwin is the author of For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies The Middle East in the Middle Ages and The Arabian Nights: A Companion. His novels include The Limits of Vision The Arabian Nightmare The Mysteries of Algiers and Satan Wants Me.A magnificent edition of the greatest collection of folk tales in the world ... an ocean of stories to be dipped into over a lifetime. And this new Penguin edition is the one to have. Settle back pour a glass of wine and sail away with Sinbad to the Island of SerendibPart of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in highquality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.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 viziers daughter Shahrazad begins to tell the king tales of adventure love riches and wonder tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks the Angel of Death and magical spirits tales of the voyages of Sindbad of Ali Babas outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1001 nights . . .