One Thousand and One Nights - World Youth Literature Classics Collection

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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: "One Thousand and One Nights" features a diverse and fantastical theme, mostly telling stories that appear bizarre yet are close to life. It combines simple realism with magical romanticism, vividly depicting the social life, thoughts, emotions, lifestyles, and customs of the medieval Arab region. Through the struggle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, it praises the loyal and unyielding love, honest labor, and noble character. It is truly colorful and lifelike, like a magnificent historical scroll. "One Thousand and One Nights" attracts generations of readers with its engaging plots, wonderful imagination, tempting fiction, accessible language, rich sense of life, and distinct Arab characteristics. In over 200 years since its publication, it has spread almost worldwide, becoming one of the most vibrant, renowned, and widely read great literary works in the world. This book includes over 20 stories, all recognized as the finest and most beloved classics. Such captivating masterpieces as "The Merchant and the Jinn," "The Fisherman and the Golden Fish," "The Death of the Hunchback," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "The Shoemaker and the Devil" are truly enthralling works.