A tale from The Arabian nights about a boy who finds a magic lamp and two other tales.

Includes "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," "The Ebony Horse," "The Dream," and other stories

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 o

For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in whic

The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificen