Arabian Nights

Tomoe Watanabe

The title I read was Arabian Nights. This book's author isn’t given. I think the genre is a fable. I started reading it on the 15th of June, and I haven't finished it yet, because this book is very long. I’m still reading it now. This book I bought at the book sale. The reason’s I knew some of the tales. I want to know more other tales, as I’m interested in these tales. I think the book is sat during the Medieval Islamic period in an Arabian land. The main characters are Scheherazabe and Schahria.

This stories rough content is Schahria's wife was unfaithful to him. He has distrust of his wife, so he takes vengeance on all women. One day Scheherazabe heard about this. She thinks to stop the vengeance, so she married him. As she talks every night she changes his mind. The tales she tells attract him. He wants to hear the next tales, so he stops the vengeance. He had been listening to her for a thousand and one consecutive days.

I think the best point in this book is it has so many tales. So they’re very interesting. You can know the famous fairy tales of Arabia and this book includes many famous fairy tales. I knew such a tale as “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp”,“Sinbad the Sailor” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” I think this book reads easy comparatively and the tales are interesting. I rate this book as good, but this book has a lot of tales, so I think you need much time for reading it. If you are interested in this book, read it.