The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights

Jul 22, 2025 6:08 AM

Author:Robert Irwin,Malcolm Lyons,Ursula Lyons

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.

Reviews

Brilliant...very funny

—— Sunday Telegraph

A painful, funny, humane novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident

—— The Times

Wry, warm-hearted and entertaining

—— Charlotte Moore , Telegraph

Unforgettable

—— Daily Express

A witty and subtle family drama

—— Independent on Sunday

Impossible to put down

—— Wall Street Journal

Delicious fun

—— New York Times

Moves with a swift comic logic . . . An innovative and imaginative and intricate plot . . .welds Wolfe's descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading, and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force

—— Time

Acerbically funny

—— Christina Koning , The Times

Still very funny and smartly written a good 20 years after it was first published

—— Colin Waters , Sunday Herald

Dense with research and bulging with bombast. Yet, it has to be admitted, it's also great fun

—— Hermione Hoby , Observer

I read this novel at the end of the 1980s when greed and excess were rife, and the merger barons were making loads of money. As someone working in the City, I loved how it perfectly captured the voraciously materialistic mood. Wolfe portrays his characters with wit and accuracy.

—— Madeleine Gore , Easy Living

A page-turner

—— Daily Express

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