During these 1,001 nights, the king had fallen in love with Scheherazade. Burton's translation of The Nights, Shahrazad was described in this way: 'Shahrazad had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand. At the end of 1,001 nights, and 1,000 stories, Scheherazade told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. Scheherazade or Shahrazad is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights. Again, the king spared her life for one more day so she could finish the second story.Īnd so the king kept Scheherazade alive day by day, as he eagerly anticipated the finishing of the previous night’s story. The following night, Scheherazade finished the story and then began a second, even more exciting tale, which she again stopped halfway through at dawn. So, the king spared her life for one day to finish the story the next night. The king asked her to finish, but Scheherazade said there was no time, as dawn was breaking. The night passed by, and Scheherazade stopped in the middle. The king lay awake and listened with awe as Scheherazade told her first story. Once in the king’s chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, Dunyazade, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.Īgainst her father’s wishes, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the king. Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. In Sir Richard Burton’s translation of The Nights, Scheherazade was described in this way: He had killed 1,000 such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier’s daughter. Therefore, he resolved to marry a new virgin each day as well as behead the previous day’s wife, so that she would have no chance to be unfaithful to him. The story goes that Shahryar, the Sultan, found out one day that his first wife was unfaithful to him. I’ll do my best to hunt it down so that you guys will be able to enjoy it too.īut here’s the overall bigger picture of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights It’s called The Beautiful Statue I think. I had read it out of one of my Children’s Fairytale Collection Books when I was younger. There’s this one story which I really loved from 1001 nights. But I just haven’t got round to finish reading it yet. There are so many stories within a story.
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