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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontMedieval feats of courage, bravery, and heroism from Persia, India, Egypt, and Mesopotamia fill these magical tales of "The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales.' From the windsw...
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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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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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The Little Hunchback
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontHow many times can one man die? Surprisingly many, it turns out. Set in what is now the Xinjiang province of China, tensions between Muslims, Jews and Christians lead a series of i...
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The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontA good fairy tale needs a happy ending, and if he can’t provide one for the rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story of his sixth brother, the barber of Kashgar can at least add one to t...
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The Story of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontSinbad the Sailor is among the most famous heroes of the Arabian Nights; his voyages have been adapted many times, including as Marvel comics and a Dreamworks film starring Brad Pi...
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The Story of the Barber's Fifth Brother
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontThere are many ways to make a small fortune; the easiest is to start with a large one. Brought before the Sultan of Kashgar, a barber regales him with stories of his many brothers,...
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Third Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
Nights, One Thousand and OneSaga EgmontSetting out on the high seas again, Sindbad faces greater dangers in his third voyage than ever before, including pygmy pirates, a giant snake, and a one-eyed monster (based on the...
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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...