One Thousand and One Nights Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
collection of Middle Eastern folk stories
About One Thousand and One Nights
The main frame story concerns Shahryār (from Middle Persianšahr-dār, "holder of realm"), whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" ruling in "India and China". Shahryār is shocked to learn that his brother's wife is unfaithful; discovering that his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her killed. In his bitterness and grief, he decides that all women are the same. Shahryār begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonor him. Finally, the Grand Vizier's daughterSheherezadeoffers herself for marriage. In the night, she begins telling him a tale. She withholds the end of the story and offers to tell it the following night. Shahryār lets her live the next day to hear the end of the story. As she tells t
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