# The Arabian Nights

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

- Genres: [童话新编](https://localbooks.app/genres/fantasy/fairy-tale-retellings), [短篇小说](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/short-stories)
- Set in: [巴格达, 巴格达省, 伊拉克](https://localbooks.app/places/iq/baghdad/baghdad); [开罗, 开罗省, 埃及](https://localbooks.app/places/eg/cairo/cairo); [巴士拉省, 伊拉克](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)

Read a free sample: https://localbooks.app/books/the-arabian-nights/read/1 (35 chapters, 111349 words)

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