Great Love Stories from One Thousand and One Nights

The clever Scheherazade tells her thrilling stories to the cruel King Shahryar in the love chamber. It's no wonder that they are filled with longing and passion time and again. The Book of Love continues the first volume of Claudia Ott's highly acclaimed new translation with four captivating love stories. Here too, her remarkable skill shines through as she faithfully and refreshingly translates the oldest manuscripts into contemporary language, transporting readers to an Orient full of beauty, danger, magic, and burning love. Great love - great stories! The Book of Love features a cloverleaf of four breathtakingly beautiful, terrifying, and erotic love dramas from the oldest sources of One Thousand and One Nights. They tell of a prince and a princess who adamantly refuse to marry but fall in love due to a demonic spell, or of a poor merchant who comes into possession of a beautiful slave girl, only to have her deceitfully taken from him. This tale is the basis for Pier Paolo Pasolini's famous film "Erotic Stories from 1001 Nights" and is translated here from a much older manuscript. The storyteller Scheherazade takes us into a paradisiacal love garden, through bazaars, into deserts, and finally into the underworld, keeping us on the edge of our seats with lovestruck Bedouins, fire-breathing dragons, singing monks, cunning merchants, cruel rulers, wise harem guardians, and sudden twists of fate. A poetic masterpiece full of tension and eroticism!

The immediate continuation of the successful first volume of Claudia Ott's new translation of "1001 Nights" - with over 100,000 copies sold. Four great love stories, including the source of Pasolini's famous film "Erotic Stories from 1001 Nights.".