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One Thousand and One Nights by Jeon Jin Seok (story) and Han Seughee (art) — a manhwa rewriting of the Nights for female Korean teenagers. Les 1001 nuits de Scheherazade . Paris: Albin Michel, 2001, by Eric Maltaite.
The Thousand and One Nights, collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship. Its tales of Aladdin , Ali Baba , and Sindbad the Sailor have almost become part of Western folklore , though these were added to the collection only in the 18th century in European adaptations .
Oct 26, 2017 · The One Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, as it is also known, is constructed as a “frame story” to which all the other tales are subsequently added.
With the help of her sister Dunyazad, every night after their marriage she spends hours telling him stories, each time stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger, so the king will postpone the execution out of a desire to hear the rest of the tale.
Translated by Husain Haddawy, W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. The Arabian Nights. The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies. I heard, O happy king, that there once lived in the city of Baghdad a bachelor who worked as a porter. One day he was standing in the market, leaning on his basket, when a woman approached him.
The famous framing story for the fifteenth-century Arabic Alf layla wa-layla ( One Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) involves two brothers—King Shahrayar, who rules...
The Thousand and One Nights. Shahrazad must hold the interest of her despotic husband the sultan with nightly tales, lest she lose her life in the morning. This wellspring of storytelling, circulating from medieval Persia to Egypt to Iraq, like its wily raconteur lives on in many modern adaptations.
