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One thousand and one Arabian nights

Geraldine McCaughrean, Rosamund Fowler (Illustrator)
King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories -- of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains -- are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again

Print Book, English, 1999
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999