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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 1
Betrayed by his first wife, King Shahryar resolves to marry a new bride each night and have her executed by dawn, until the vizier's daughter Shahrazad volunteers herself and begins…
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 2
Shahrazad's nightly reprieve continues in this second volume of Burton's landmark translation, as her tales grow ever more elaborate: voyages to islands that turn out to be sleeping sea monsters,…
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