Orem Library

Overview: Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which...

The famous story is illustrated in the style of tenth-century Persian miniatures.

Thrown into prison by the man who has stolen his identity, Javan is forced to fight his way out during the prison's twice-yearly tournament in the hope of gaining an audience with the king, an effort that is assisted by a slave girl who keeps a dangerous secret. Based on the Arabian tale The False Prince.

The story of Aladdin and his magic lamp is one of the best known tales from the Arabian Nights.

"Yaffa and Fatima live on neighboring date farms. When very little rain leads to a poor harvest, both women go to extra measures to make sure that their neighbor doesn't go hungry"--

The story of Aladdin and his magic lamp is one of the best known tales from the Arabian Nights.

A selection of the tales told by Shahrazad in an attempt to save her life, including "The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers," "The Fisherman and the Jinnee," "The Historic Fart," and "The Tale of Kafur the Black Eunuch."

Aladdin is a very lazy young man who is dedicated to rob or cheat people of Agrabah to survive, dreaming of being someone important someday.