Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows many wonderful stories - a thousand and one! Some of them are in this book. We meet many different people in these stories - a clever servant girl, a boy judge, a stupid barber and forty bad thieves.
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Chapter 1 The Sultan and Sheherezade
Chapter 2 Behind the Door
Chapter 3 Sultan Haroun Laughs
Chapter 4 Faisal and the Barber
Chapter 5 The Boy Judge
Chapter 6 The Dwarf of Basra
Chapter 7 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Chapter 8 The End of the Forty Thieves
Chapter 9 The Thief and the Donkey
Chapter 10 Aladin and the Lamp