Tales From The "Arabian Nights" by Anonymous
A rich anthology of interwoven Middle Eastern and South Asian folktales framed by the clever storyteller Scheherazade, who spins night after night of adventures, romance, trickery, and magic to captivate a vengeful king and spare her life; the collection ranges from palace intrigue and moral fables to fantastical voyages and encounters with genies, thieves, sea monsters, and enchanted objects, including enduring episodes such as Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad, whose vivid imagery and moral complexity have shaped storytelling traditions across cultures.
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- Multiple
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- Pages
- Varies (single-volume selections ~300–800 pages; complete multi-volume sets 1,200+ pages)
- Original Language
- Arabic
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- Alternate Titles
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- 1001 Nights
- Alf Layla wa-Layla
- One Thousand and One Nights
- The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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