The Arabian Nights / The Thousand and One Nights / Alf Laylah wa laylah
It is a collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship. The stories are set within a frame story. Its scene is Central Asia where King Shahryar, after discovering that during his absences his wife has been regularly unfaithful, kills her. Then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills a new wife each […]