Odin iz samykh populiarnykh pamiatnikov mirovoi literatury – "Kniga tysiachi i odnoi nochi", zavoevavshaia liubov chitatelei ne tolko na Vostoke, no i na Zapade. Skazki tysiachi i odnoi nochi – eto chudesnyi, udivitelnyi mir, izvestnyi nam s detstva. Povestvovaniia o geroicheskikh puteshestviiakh, trogatelnye povesti o vliublennykh, uvlekatelnye skazki o kovrakh-samoletakh i dzhinnakh, neobyknovennye rasskazy o mudretcakh i prostakakh, praviteliakh i kuptcakh… V istoriiakh prekrasnoi Shakhrazady perepletaiutsia geroicheskie i plutovskie, mifologicheskie i liubovnye siuzhety indiiskogo, persidskogo, arabskogo mirov. V etot sbornik voshli skazki pro Ali-Babu, Sindbada-morekhoda, Aladdina i drugie, ne menee zakhvatyvaiushchie, voploshchaiushchie vsiu prelest i krasotu srednevekovogo Vostoka.
