Read Les Mille et Une Nuits : contes choisis in Frenchwith every sentence explained

Les Mille et Une Nuits : contes choisis by Anonymous was first published in 1704. In Passage you read the full text in the French translation by Antoine Galland, marked intermediate and filed under children and fantasy. It runs to about 141,200 words.

Every night, a story. Every story buys one more day of life.

Sultan Schahriar, betrayed once, has sworn to marry a new bride each day and have her put to death the next morning. Then clever Scheherazade volunteers to marry him. Every night she begins a tale for her sister Dinarzade, and every dawn she stops at the most exciting moment. The sultan simply has to hear what happens next.

From her lips pour a genie freed from a copper jar, a young king turned half to marble, the three wandering princes and the five ladies of Baghdad, and the seven perilous voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, with Aladdin and his wonderful lamp and Ali Baba and the forty thieves to crown the collection.

Antoine Galland's translation, published from 1704, introduced Europe to the Arabian Nights and started a passion that has never faded. This selection gathers the most famous tales.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday French feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.