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I picked up a huge volume of stories from the Arabian Nights when I was quite young. I didn't read all of them because it was incredibly thick and dusty book so at that point I had no patience yet for all of them but I really liked the exotic tales of sultans, wizards and brave adventurers. Now I own the new edition of the three 1930s Finnish volumes with beautiful illustrations and along with Grimm's Fairy Tales I'll always cherish it.
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I read the first many stories for my World Literature course through EdX.
Our family's edition was on a regular rotation in my reading life as a child. I loved the episodic stories, but mostly I loved the frame story of the brave, clever and wise Scheherazade. I look forward to reading this and other editions.
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I found this book incredibly hard to read! It took me FOREVER to get through, just because I kept falling asleep every 10 pages or so. I skipped a lot of parts, and I highly doubt I will ever go back to re-read....
Jul 11, 2009
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