The Arabian Nights - Signet Classics Paperback in Two (2) Volumes RARE

Some nights you wish would never end....

Bawdy and exotic, Arabian Nights, features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar.  First introduced into the West in 1704, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions.  This modern edition, based on Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation, restores the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic.

Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's classic translation, this collection of lush Arab fairy tales entertain universal themes while illuminating the foreign world of the Medieval Middle East, featuring "The Porter and the Three Ladies," "The Caliph's Night Adventure," "The Woman Who Made Her Husband Sift Dirt," and other favorites.