Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in highquality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life the viziers daughter Shahrazad begins to tell the king tales of adventure love riches and wonder tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks the Angel of Death and magical spirits tales of the voyages of Sindbad of Ali Babas outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1001 nights . . .