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Nights
The Thousand and One Nights
Author: unknown
Culture: Arab, from a
collection of pre-Islamic
Middle Persian tales.
Time: 14th century
Genre: prose, contains lots
of different genres from
poetry to prose adventure
tales, romances, etc.
Names to know:
Shahrazad, Shahrayar
1,001 Nights
Oral and written versions existed side by
side.
The tales are rooted in daily life, but are made
magical by their settings, fantastic adventures,
and the intervention of sorcerers and demons
(djinn).
The Prologue sets forth the themes
Lust, madness, violence, justice, retribution,
heroism.
The Narrator