1001 Nights

 
 
 
 
Despite the variety of different tales within the collection of stories known as either the Arabian Nights or 1001 Knights, the story actually revolves around a witty and beautiful female storyteller known as Scheherazade. King Shahriar discovers his wife's infidelity. In his anger, he has her killed and determines to marry a new wife each day and to execute each one the next morning. Scheherazade is a beautiful young woman in the kingdom. She seeks to free the kingdom from King Shahriar's curse. As she tells her father, "I am determined to stop this barbarous practice of the Sultan's, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them" (Damrosch et al., 2004). She marries the King and after the ceremonies, she begins to tell him a tale. Though he thinks the tale is the last tale she will tell, Scheherazade cleverly provides a bit of preview


     
 
 
 
    

 

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