DESCRIPTION : 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 . . . PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9780241382714 PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd PUBLICATION DATE : September 05, 2019 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Penguin Classics LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Hardback DIMENSION : 204 mm x 138 mm WEIGHT : 648 g SERIES : Penguin Clothbound Classics PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items