Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
ALADDIN, ALI BABA AND OTHER FAVOURITES
By ANONYMOUS
Introduction by Robert Irwin
Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons
Notes by Robert Irwin
ABOUT TALES FROM THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
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 – tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba’s outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
