--- product_id: 2529159 title: "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections)" price: "¥4984" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/2529159-one-thousand-and-one-arabian-nights-oxford-story-collections store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Complete illustrated Arabian Nights tales Same-day dispatch before noon No-quibble returns One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) **Price:** ¥4984 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the magic of a thousand nights—don’t miss out on the story everyone’s talking about! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) - **How much does it cost?** ¥4984 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/2529159-one-thousand-and-one-arabian-nights-oxford-story-collections) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Risk-Free Reading:** Enjoy guaranteed packaging and hassle-free returns, ensuring your satisfaction with zero stress. - • **Award-Winning Retelling:** Experience Geraldine McCaughrean’s masterful storytelling that brings ancient folklore vividly to life. - • **Fast & Reliable Delivery:** Order before noon and get your copy dispatched the very same day—because your next adventure shouldn't wait. - • **Timeless Tales, One Volume:** Dive into 300 pages of expertly retold Arabian Nights stories that captivate and educate. - • **Cultural & Historical Goldmine:** Perfect for professionals craving enriching narratives that blend history, humor, and timeless wisdom. ## Overview This new mint condition paperback edition of 'One Thousand and One Arabian Nights' features an original retelling by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. It compiles classic Middle Eastern folk tales into a 300-page illustrated volume, dispatched same day if ordered before noon, with guaranteed secure packaging and no-quibble returns. Highly rated and perfect for readers seeking a blend of cultural insight, humor, and timeless adventure. ## Description King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories--of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains--are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again... This illustrated edition brings together all the Arabian Nights tales in an original retelling by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. (paperback reissue of ISBN 0-19-274500-X) Review: AP World History Review - I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting an enjoyable and easy way to draw conclusions of political, social, and cultural aspects of this time period during the Islamic Golden Age. McCaughrean managed to compile one thousand nights of stories and translations into an almost three hundred page book. Even so, the author was able to convey a years old folk tale that came out of ancient and medieval times and allow the reader to easily comprehend it. I found this book to be a quick read as I was able to finish it in one day. The ever so interesting and intertwined stories kept me coming back, and there was never a point when I was un intrigued. Hearing from others who read this book, they had the same thoughts as it is an enlightening and historical adventure. I encourage everyone to read this enriching tale as it can be used for educational or pleasure reading. Review: You Won't Find Fairytales Any Better - Words cannot describe the fantastic quality of this collection of Arabic literature. But don't get the book just to read the tale of Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and his Wonderful Lamp, because the other tales included surpass this merely moderate one by far - although it's interesting to find out that a black midget is Aladdin's primary nemesis (upon who Disney's Jafar is based, apparently). The stories touch on such a wide variety of unusual topics: a man's visit to the kingdom of mermaids, a dead beggar getting tripped over again and again, a guy claiming to have several volcanoes in a portable bag, a Sultan's escape from a buffalo-faced woman in the presence of a group of pink ladies, and the marriage of a prince to a turtle. Insane stuff. My favorite story is The Everlasting Shoes by far. It's quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. It's about an old miser who's so cheap he never buys new shoes. He just patches up the pair he has whenever they get holes. The addition of so many patches naturally make his shoes bigger and bigger. Eventually the shoes become ridiculously huge and heavy and smelly, and they make a lot of noise as the miser walks. The scene of the shoes being thrown into the river and getting caught in the millwork is well worth the price of the entire book. There's a story in here that looks VERY much like a mid-east version of Cinderella. Quite interesting. I am unable to tell how many liberties the author has taken in translating the tales, but they're definitely fun to read. There are tons of ancient day metaphors and funny insults like, "You flea on a cockroach's kneecap!" and "Son of a plank! Did you steal your brains from a table?" I really liked reading the misfortunes of the protagonist in the Keys of Destiny stories, and the nagging wives that appear sporadically are pretty darn funny. The things I didn't like about this book were very few. Only its frequent mentioning of Allah and the puzzling weakness of its 998th and 999th stories about a flying toy horse. I would recommend the Arabian Knights to anybody over the age of fifteen; probably because I was so surprised at the large amount of enjoyable humor. ## Features - New - Mint Condition - Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon - Guaranteed packaging - No quibbles returns ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #33,857 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #64 in Children's Folk Tale & Myth Anthologies #949 in Children's Classics #1,434 in Fantasy for Children | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 417 Reviews | ## Images ![One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41bBZFaM-UL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AP World History Review *by J***R on December 4, 2013* I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting an enjoyable and easy way to draw conclusions of political, social, and cultural aspects of this time period during the Islamic Golden Age. McCaughrean managed to compile one thousand nights of stories and translations into an almost three hundred page book. Even so, the author was able to convey a years old folk tale that came out of ancient and medieval times and allow the reader to easily comprehend it. I found this book to be a quick read as I was able to finish it in one day. The ever so interesting and intertwined stories kept me coming back, and there was never a point when I was un intrigued. Hearing from others who read this book, they had the same thoughts as it is an enlightening and historical adventure. I encourage everyone to read this enriching tale as it can be used for educational or pleasure reading. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You Won't Find Fairytales Any Better *by T***Y on November 17, 2006* Words cannot describe the fantastic quality of this collection of Arabic literature. But don't get the book just to read the tale of Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and his Wonderful Lamp, because the other tales included surpass this merely moderate one by far - although it's interesting to find out that a black midget is Aladdin's primary nemesis (upon who Disney's Jafar is based, apparently). The stories touch on such a wide variety of unusual topics: a man's visit to the kingdom of mermaids, a dead beggar getting tripped over again and again, a guy claiming to have several volcanoes in a portable bag, a Sultan's escape from a buffalo-faced woman in the presence of a group of pink ladies, and the marriage of a prince to a turtle. Insane stuff. My favorite story is The Everlasting Shoes by far. It's quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. It's about an old miser who's so cheap he never buys new shoes. He just patches up the pair he has whenever they get holes. The addition of so many patches naturally make his shoes bigger and bigger. Eventually the shoes become ridiculously huge and heavy and smelly, and they make a lot of noise as the miser walks. The scene of the shoes being thrown into the river and getting caught in the millwork is well worth the price of the entire book. There's a story in here that looks VERY much like a mid-east version of Cinderella. Quite interesting. I am unable to tell how many liberties the author has taken in translating the tales, but they're definitely fun to read. There are tons of ancient day metaphors and funny insults like, "You flea on a cockroach's kneecap!" and "Son of a plank! Did you steal your brains from a table?" I really liked reading the misfortunes of the protagonist in the Keys of Destiny stories, and the nagging wives that appear sporadically are pretty darn funny. The things I didn't like about this book were very few. Only its frequent mentioning of Allah and the puzzling weakness of its 998th and 999th stories about a flying toy horse. I would recommend the Arabian Knights to anybody over the age of fifteen; probably because I was so surprised at the large amount of enjoyable humor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A lot of very funny stories written at a middle school level (just be ready to talk about the morality of having a harem) *by P***O on March 15, 2018* A very approachable and hilarious collection of stories! I used this for middle-school aged students, who found the reading level just about right, but some of the story content took some careful in-class discussion (harems, concubines, a woman telling the stories so she doesn't have her head chopped off by her husband). However, once clear cultural and moral norms were introduced and discussed, prior to beginning the reading (and reviewed during certain stories, and all parents were provided with discussion points in advance so they could talk with their children), the plot of the individual characters in the stories was extremely engaging. ## Frequently Bought Together - One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Retellings, Myths & Legends) - Illustrated Arabian Nights (Usborne Illustrated Story Collections) - The Arabian Nights: Sixteen stories from Sheherazade --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.jp/products/2529159-one-thousand-and-one-arabian-nights-oxford-story-collections](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/2529159-one-thousand-and-one-arabian-nights-oxford-story-collections) --- *Product available on Desertcart Japan* *Store origin: JP* *Last updated: 2026-09-17*