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Book Description The Arabian Nights is said to have emerged from a legendary tale of a Persian King and his clever Queen The King had been betrayed by his wife Furious he married the maidens in his kingdom one after another only to behead them the very next day After he killed many women he was married to his viziers clever and beautiful daughter Scheherazade To save herself from being killed she told him stories every night each time stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger thus forcing him to keep her alive for another day to finish the tale The stories continued for 1001 nights After listening to the stories the king became wiser and repented his mistakes He did not kill Scheherazade and in fact made her the new Queen The Arabian Nights consists of three longer stories namely Aladdin Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor and many other shorter tales The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor narrates the several adventures Sinbad incurs while he sailing to various cities to trade These are described vividly with extraordinary imagination and capture the interest of adults and children alike 40 pp. Seller Inventory # 92922