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The Story of the First Calender, Son of a King
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontPalace intrigues abound in the story of the first calender, a wandering Sufi of royal birth: on a visit to his uncle’s kingdom, the young prince is sworn to secrecy by his cousin,...
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The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontA jealous husband gives his wife a talking parrot as a gift—but if you remember Gilbert Gottfried as Iago in Disney's animated Aladdin, you'll have an idea what to expect! Now the...
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The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontWhen a wandering physician named Douban cures a Greek king of his leprosy, he inspires murderous jealousy in the king’s vizir, leading the king to tell a cautionary tale of his own...
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The Story of the Second Calender, Son of a King
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontThe second wandering Sufi tells how, as a young prince, he set off to visit the Sultan of the Indies, but never arrived. Instead, his adventures led him through danger, poverty, a...
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The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontAn old man explains that his two black dogs are really his two brothers, whom he repeatedly saved from poverty. When he married a beautiful woman, however, all his kindnesses were...
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The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontWhen the second princely calender’s story of an envious man fails to appease an evil genie, his punishment is to be turned into a monkey. No longer able to speak, he nonetheless re...
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Arabian Nights
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontThe Arabian Nights is an exotic collection of stories that will grab your attention from the very first page. At the heart of the collection is Scheherazade, the bride of Schahriar...
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The Story of the Three Calenders, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontA beautiful lady asked the porter in our story to carry her things home. The porter agreed and he was invited to stay for the night but on one condition – he was not supposed to sp...
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The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontPerhaps the most intricate of the Arabian Nights, "The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished" begins as a second tale within "The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban", a...
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The Story of the Fisherman
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontGenies don’t always grant three wishes, as a fisherman discovers when his nets drag up a small yellow pot sealed with lead. Opening the seal frees a genie, but unlike the one disco...
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The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontThe prince of the Black Isles and the inhabitants of his city have suffered under the magical power of his cousin, whom he married not knowing she was an enchantress—until the sult...
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The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontAn old man leads a deer that appears completely tame; stranger still, he claims that it is really his wife. Nor is she the first of his household to have been turned into an animal...
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The Story of the Third Calender, Son of a King
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontThe story of the third calender is as packed with mysteries and adventures as the tales of Sinbad the Sailor: after surviving shipwreck, the young prince finds that friendship lead...
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Klaanien varjoja
Hunter, Erin; Sironen, NanaArt House Oy 2022 1. painosKolme jännittävää, odotettua seikkailua Myrskyklaanin kissojen historiasta: Miksi Vaahteravarjo katkeroitui klaanilleen ja päätyi hautomaan ikuista kostoa Synkkään Metsään? Millais...
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Write Together 2021
Hedström, Ethel; Kvick, Mattias; Brohammer, Göran; Henricson, Christina; Persson, Carina; Illyés, Birgitta; Coyne, A. T.; Hägglin, Anders; Bodin, JohannaLange ForlagEn novellantologi skriven av fina författare. Allt ifrån julen som rymmer till en text som inte vill bli läst.
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Seventh and Last Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontSindbad, now an old man, has finally learned his lesson, and sworn never to leave Bagdad. Yet when the Caliph demands that he return to Serendib (modern-day Sri Lanka), Sindbad has...
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Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontSindbad’s fifth voyage progresses from tragedy to farce when the crew of his ship first discover the egg of a roc – the giant eagles he escaped in his second voyage – and he is lat...
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Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontSindbad’s fourth voyage may not feature monsters or giant animals, but after being shipwrecked and befriending the hospitable islanders, he faces a different kind of horror: a trad...
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Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontAfter such lucky escapes from disaster as those in Sindbad’s first voyage, most people would probably choose to stay at home – but Sindbad is not most people. Going to sea a second...
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First Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontMany legends are told about whales so huge they are mistaken for islands, and wake up when sailors light a campfire on their backs, plunging into the depths and drowning the poor m...