The Arabian Nights

    The Arabian Nights stories are some of the world’s great treasures. These stories are existed for thousands of years. It generally consists of tales from Persia and Arabia. The Arabian Nights is also known as The 1001 Arabian Nights.
    The Arabian Nights include fairy tales, romances, farces, legends and parables. These tales use a sweeping variety of settings and places, including Baghdad, Persia, Cairo and Damascus, as well as China, India and Turkey.
    The stories are fanciful, sometimes are brutal tales. The suggestion of the Arabian Nights is that a fantastically valuable jewel exists, when it comes into contact with people, it actually changes their lives. The jewels are the magnificently powerful art of these stories. There may not be any better examples in the world of how art, trickery, magic and skill can spin together and form a world that every reader wants to be interested. In spite of the situation presented in any particular Arabian Nights story, the theory contained in the story is that life is always worth living and that human effort, along with human weakness, is a wonderful and fascinating thing to behold. These stories form a strong connection between the ancient civilizations of the East and those of the West.

    There are several versions of these stories in many languages all over the world and they all express the great sense of adventure, truth, incredible imagination, justice, and faith of God. It indicated the great civilizations of the Arabs that contributed stories and ideas to the collection.

    There are hundreds in existence of the Arabian Nights tales. The most common version is translated by Andrew Lang in 1898; these folktales are simplified and making them more suitable for children world wide.