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The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full
of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years
ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty
Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a
thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the
next evening's entertainment and thereby save her life. Among them
are some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling,
including the "Sinbad the Sailor," "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp,"
and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." This collection features more
than twenty stories, in the classic translation of Sir Richard
Burton, published between 1884 and 1886, and full-colour
illustrations by Renata Fucikova and Jindra Capek. The Arabian
Nights is one of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound classics. Each
volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors
in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive
gilt edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and
collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young
and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home
library.
The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime
Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now
featuring a new introduction by Louise Penny, a foreword from Agatha
Christie's great grandson, and exclusive content from the Queen of
Mystery.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had
poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had
been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had
taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.
However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of
information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was
stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest
resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other
than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . .
Not only beloved by generations of readers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
was one of Agatha Christie’s own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit
that firmly established the author’s reputation as the Queen of Mystery.
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