Arab tales. Book of a thousand and one night

Stories included in the "Book of Thousand and One Nights" and dating back to the Arabic, Iranian and Indian folklore are very heterogeneous in style and content. This is a kaleidoscope of events and images of a long-past era with a variegated color of morals and life of various layers during the Baghdad ruler Harun Ar-Rashid. The connecting link in all fairy tales is the wise and well -read daughter of the vizier of Scheheerezada. Fleeing from the reprisal of Shakhriyra, who, after treason, who was hungry for all women, Scheheerezada with his stories distracts the tyrant from gloomy thoughts, interrupting his story in the most interesting place and inciting his curiosity ...
Jeans and sorcerers sealed with a secret word treasures, magic rings and lamps, fascinated youths and crafty beauties - this is how the reader opens a bizarre, colorful, mysterious world of Arabic fairy tales