Full of mischief valor ribaldry and romance The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for
centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad whose husband the king
executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each
evening Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later her life was
spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A.
Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume
translation and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales
including Alaeddin or the Wonderful Lamp Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman and Ali
Baba and the Forty Thieves have entered into the popular imagination demonstrating that
Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. From the Trade Paperback edition.
