The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

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A picture of Scheherazade telling stories to her husband
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A picture of Scheherazade telling stories to her husband

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is a cycle of stories that come from Arabia and Persia. There are different layers of the stories:

  • Outermost is the story of Queen Scheherazade who needs to entertain her husband, or she would be put to death.
  • The next layer is made up of the actual stories (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, etc.)
  • In those stories, there is often also a narrator who tells things.

According to a legend, anyone who reads all 1001 stories will become mad.

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