One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (also known as the Arabian Nights) is a collection of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African folk tales and stories compiled and transmitted over many centuries. The frame story features Scheherazade, who tells tales to King Shahryar to delay her execution. The tales originate from multiple cultures and languages and have no single identifiable author.
Books
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1. The Arabian Nights
A framed collection of interlinked folk tales in which a resourceful storyteller preserves her life by narrating a new, suspenseful story each night and leaving it unfinished to keep her listener enthralled; the tales span romantic adventures, sea voyages, encounters with supernatural beings like djinn, clever tricksters, moral parables, and courtly intrigue, together forming a rich, multicultural mosaic of myth, folklore, and ethical reflection.
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