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The Arabian Nights (Everyman's Library)

The Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began to appear in the West in the early 18th century,...
ISBN: 9781841593616
Author: Edited by Wen-Chin Ouyang
Page: 894
Binding: Hard cover
Publication date: 2014
Format: Book
Publisher: ALFRED A. KNOPF
Language: English

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...firing in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from Persia and Arabia and India, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufiteaching tales, they provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.

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