Thousand and One Nights. Salier M.A.

A thousand and one night ”is a mosaic of colorful images, events and details of the life of the medieval East. Jeans and sorcerers, sealed treasures, magic rings and lamps, fascinated youths and crafty beauties - this is how the reader opens a bizarre, colorful, mysterious world of Arabic tales. The literary monument retained for descendants the best examples of the Arab novel - household, plutovsk, historical, adventure and fabulous fantastic. In a single narrative, touching, exciting and funny stories, often deprived of a raid of modesty, are connected by the image of Shahrazada. Fleeing from the reprisal of Tiran of Shakhriyra, with her stories she distracts him from cruel intentions and pacifies his fierce disposition. The book included chosen fairy tales: about the syndbade of a model, about Aladdin and a magic lamp, about Ali-Babe and Magpie Robbers and others.