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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author), Andrew Lang (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor)
ISBN: 1421896915     ISBN-13: 9781421896915
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.08 lbs) 388 pages
 
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In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidae, who reigned for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time. His subjects loved him, and his neighbors feared him, and when he died he left his kingdom in a more prosperous and powerful condition than any king had done before him. The two sons who survived him loved each other tenderly, and it was a real grief to the elder, Schahriar, that the laws of the empire forbade him to share his dominions with his brother Schahzeman. Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king. Now the Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world, and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendour, and to give her the finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels.