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The Arabian Nights
Classic fiction
The Arabian Nights
735 pages · First published 800
Scheherazade tells stories night after night to King Shahryar, delaying her execution by ending each evening’s tale at a point that makes him eager to hear what happens next. Within that famous frame appear adventures involving merchants, sailors, genies, enchanted objects, clever women, dangerous rulers, and reversals of fortune. The collection developed across centuries and cultures, so its exact contents vary substantially by translation and edition. The Arabian Nights is best approached as a vast story-world of nested tales whose influence on fantasy, adventure, and Western ideas about the medieval Islamic world has been enormous.
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