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Talking tigers, clever jackals, seven brothers turned into champa flowers, princesses who sleep for years under a magician's curse, and the ever-resourceful trickster who outwits kings and demons alike: this…

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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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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,…