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One Thousand and One Nights (selected Translations of Famous Works)

Translated By Fang Pingping

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A collection of Arabic folktales. According to legend, there was a country between India and China in ancient times. The king was cruel and jealous by nature. He killed the queen because of her misbehavior. After that, he married a girl every day and killed her the next morning as revenge. In order to save the innocent woman, the prime minister's daughter voluntarily married the king and attracted the king by telling the story. She told the most exciting part every night. At dawn, the king couldn't bear to kill her and allowed her to continue telling the story the next night. Her story has been told for a thousand and one nights, and the king was finally moved and grew old together with her...