The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales

For more than five hundred years the Arabian classic Tales of a Thousand and One Nights has fascinated readers all over the world. Early in this century the popular novelist Kate Douglas Wiggin and her sister, Nora Smith, selected and edited twelve favorite tales from the collection, including the stories of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, and Sinbad the voyager. Published as a Scribner Illustrated Classic in 1909, with full-color pictures by Maxfield Parrish, one of the most acclaimed illustrators of the period, The Arabian Nights: Their Best Known Tales became the best-selling title in the noted Scribner Illustrated Classics series.

The Arabian Nights is now available for a new generation of readers, the text reset in the original typeface and the illustrations printed from new plates.