{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights-9780375712418","title":"The Arabian Nights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most famous of all story collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights, \u003c\/i\u003ealso known as \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Thousand and One Nights, \u003c\/i\u003eis beloved around the world. Composed of Persian, Arabic, Greek, Indian, and other sources that accumulated over hundreds of years, these fabulous stories-within-stories have long fired readers’ imaginations with an enchanted world of flying carpets, magic lamps, genies, demons, magicians and sorceresses, carnivorous giants, and bloodthirsty bandits.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translation has played a key role in the formation of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e as we know it, making it far more prominent in the West than it has ever been in the Arab world. Westerners’ first discovery of some of the tales in the early eighteenth century sparked a feverish thirst for more, which led to compilations that freely adapted, reconfigured, and even added to the originals. The resulting love affair with the art, architecture, literature, cuisine, and culture of the","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525059191127,"sku":"9780375712418","price":25.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780375712418.jpg?v=1731859076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-arabian-nights-9780375712418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}