The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous
"The Arabian Nights Entertainments" by Anonymous is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. A king executes his brides each morning until Scheherazade volunteers, saving her life by telling captivating stories that end on cliffhangers night after night. The tales span historical adventures, love stories, tragedies, and fantastical journeys featuring jinn, sorcerers, and legendary places, all woven together across one thousand and one nights of storytelling. (This
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About this eBook
| Author | Anonymous |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Winter, Milo, 1888-1956 |
| Title | The Arabian Nights Entertainments |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights |
| Contents | The sultan and his vow -- The story of the merchant and the genie -- The three calenders, sons of kings, and the five ladies of Bagdad -- The story of the three sisters -- The story of Aladdin; or, the wonderful lamp -- The history of Ali Baba, and of the forty robbers killed by one slave -- The story of Sinbad the sailor. |
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Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Fairy tales |
| Subject | Folklore -- Arab countries |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 19860 |
| Release Date | Nov 18, 2006 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1241 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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