Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Thousand and One Nights, namely Arabian Nights, is a collection of legendary tales told by Sultana Scheherazade to the Sasanian king ruling in India and China, who is shocked to discover that his brother's wife is unfaithful and his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her executed, and hereby decides that all women are the same. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Sultana Scheherazade, a daughter of the Prime Minister of the King, offers herself as the next bride. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade began to tell the king a tale, but does not end it, the telling of such legendary tales lasted one thousand and one nights. In the end, the king pardoned Scheherazade and spared her life. The contents of the Book: 1. STORY OF KING SHAHRYAR AND HIS BROTHER 2. THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS 3. THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI 4. THE TALE OF THE ENSORCELED PRINCE 5.THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD 6. THE FIRST KALANDAR'S TALE 7. THE FIRST KALANDAR'S TALE 8. THE THIRD KALANDAR'S TALE 9. THE ELDEST LADY'S TALE 10. THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES 11.TALE OF NUR AL-DIN ALI AND HIS SON BADR AL-DIN HASAN 12.THE CITY OF MANY-COLUMNED IRAM AND ABDULLAH SON OF ABI KILABAH 13. THE SWEEP AND THE NOBLE LADY 14.THE MAN WHO STOLE THE DISH OF GOLD WHEREIN THE DOG ATE 15. THE RUINED MAN WHO BECAME RICH AGAIN THROUGH A DREAM 16. THE ANGEL OF DEATH WITH THE PROUD AND THE DEVOUT MAN 17. THE LADY AND HER FIVE SUITORS 18. KHALIFAH THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD 19. ABU KIR THE DYER AND ABU SIR THE BARBER 20. THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER 21. STORY OF THE LARRIKIN AND THE COOK 22. CONCLUSION