Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series; designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith; these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality; 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 vizier's 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 Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1;001 nights . . .