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diana_raquel's review
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[Disclaimer: I won't be making a full review of this book. The edition that I have is divided into 7 volumes and, from what I could gather, these volumes only cover a small part of the original text. I don't feel comfortable doing a full review knowing that I don't have the complete collection, even if said collection is composed of different (and sometimes independent) short stories].
One Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights is a collection of tales from the Islamic Golden Age, compiled by various authors. Because the different stories were compiled by different authors, each collection can feature different stories, however, they all have the same framing device: the story of the sultan Shahrayar and his wife, Scheherazade. After finding out that his first wife was unfaithful, Shahrayar kills her and swears to marry a different woman each night before killing her the following morning to prevent further betrayal. When Scheherazade is chosen to be the next wife of the sultan she devises a plan to end his pattern. On her wedding night, she starts to tell a story to her husband but stops in the middle and refuses to continue until the next night. In next night, she finishes the first story and begins a new one, following the same pattern. She does this for 1001 nights until her husband has a change of heart.
From the 7 volumes of my edition, this is the worst. The stories are boring. The premise of the longest short story was really good and interesting but then the story became too boring for me. And the shortest story was equally boring.
One Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights is a collection of tales from the Islamic Golden Age, compiled by various authors. Because the different stories were compiled by different authors, each collection can feature different stories, however, they all have the same framing device: the story of the sultan Shahrayar and his wife, Scheherazade. After finding out that his first wife was unfaithful, Shahrayar kills her and swears to marry a different woman each night before killing her the following morning to prevent further betrayal. When Scheherazade is chosen to be the next wife of the sultan she devises a plan to end his pattern. On her wedding night, she starts to tell a story to her husband but stops in the middle and refuses to continue until the next night. In next night, she finishes the first story and begins a new one, following the same pattern. She does this for 1001 nights until her husband has a change of heart.
From the 7 volumes of my edition, this is the worst. The stories are boring. The premise of the longest short story was really good and interesting but then the story became too boring for me. And the shortest story was equally boring.
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