# The Arabian Nights

by [Andrew Lang](https://localbooks.app/authors/andrew-lang)

- Genres: [Пересказы сказок](https://localbooks.app/genres/fantasy/fairy-tale-retellings), [Рассказы](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/short-stories)
- Set in: [Багдад, Багдад, Ирак](https://localbooks.app/places/iq/baghdad/baghdad); [Каир, Каир, Египет](https://localbooks.app/places/eg/cairo/cairo); [Басра, Ирак](https://localbooks.app/places/iq/basra)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1898

## Description

To stay alive, Scheherazade tells her new husband the sultan a story each night and stops at the best part. Aladdin's lamp, Ali Baba's forty thieves and Sindbad's voyages are among the tales she spins, set in the bazaars and palaces of Baghdad, Cairo and Basra.

## Where to buy

- [Project Gutenberg (ebook)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/128)

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