The Arabian Nights Tales From a Thousand and One Nights

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  • Author: Anonymous
    Contributor:

    Barbosa, Gustavo

    Summary:

    Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him. Only Scheherazade finds a way to keep herself alive: for 1,001 nights she tells the sultan a series of enchanting stories, always timing it so that dawn rises at a moment of nail-biting uncertainty.

    Original Publisher: San Francisco, CA , Plympton
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781682280799

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Barbosa, Gustavo

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Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him. Only Scheherazade finds a way to keep herself alive: for 1,001 nights she tells the sultan a series of enchanting stories, always timing it so that dawn rises at a moment of nail-biting uncertainty.

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San Francisco, CA

Plympton

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