Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed, these are new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's "highly recommended" (The Times) translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want Sindbad, "beautiful versions of dozens more gems from the Arab story-hoard" (New Statesman), including "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp".

"Haddawy's translation is easily the clearest, most fluent and readable I have met."
A.S. Byatt, The Sunday Times

"The resourceful Shahrazad... has never been more entertaining than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal book."
Doris Lessing, Favourite Books of the Year, The Independent

"Haddawy produces something timeless..."
Guardian

"...Haddawy has given us a fluid re-telling that reads as if we too were listening to Sheherezade weave her tales."
Girl Solo in Arabia

June 2008 • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 33166 0 • With flaps • 464pp • 140 x 210mm